About Silva

Legal done differently

Silva is a legal advisory and consultancy company for growing businesses. Not a law firm. Not a consultancy in the abstract. Something built specifically for the gap between the two.

Advisory quality. Without the overhead.

Silva Lex Ltd exists for a straightforward reason: most growing businesses need the kind of legal support, business advice and AI capability that large firms charge large retainers for, but without the cost, the complexity, or the sense you are at the back of the queue.

We work directly with founders, in-house teams and decision-makers. No layers of associates. No billing surprises. A relationship you can actually use.

On the legal side: day-to-day queries, retainer cover, litigation support, and packaged products like our EMI scheme. On the AI side: training, implementation, discovery and platform creation for businesses integrating AI into how they work.

Silva Lex Ltd is a legal advisory and consultancy company registered in England and Wales. It is not a law firm.

Founder

Matthew Strain

Barrister Solicitor LLM

Decades of experience across in-house roles, private practice and advisory work for businesses at every stage. Founded Silva to offer what he wished had existed earlier — expert legal and AI support, priced and structured for the businesses that actually need it most.

How we work

Clear entry points. No guesswork.

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Start with a Discovery Day

Not sure what you need or where to begin? The Discovery Day is a structured session designed to give you clarity on your legal position, your risks and your options — in a single day, at a fixed fee.

Legal Discovery Day
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Ongoing cover and day-to-day work

If you need regular access to legal advice, the Retainer provides a fixed monthly relationship — responsive, practical, without the open meter. For businesses with day-to-day queries, we handle them directly.

Legal Services
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Packaged products and fixed-fee work

For defined legal tasks — an EMI scheme, a shareholder agreement, employment contracts — we offer fixed-fee products. One price, one process, no surprises. More products in development.

Legal Products

One firm. Two practices.

Legal advisory and AI consultancy, under one roof

Legal arm — silvalex.co.uk

Legal advisory for growing businesses

Practical, plain English legal support for SMEs, startups and founders. Day-to-day queries, retainer cover, commercial advice, employment, litigation support and fixed-fee products. No law firm overhead. No blank cheques.

Legal Services
AI arm — silvalex.co.uk/ai

AI consultancy for law firms and legal teams

Training, discovery, implementation and platform creation for organisations integrating AI into their practice. From half-day workshops to full workflow builds. Practical, not theoretical — built by people who actually use these tools.

Silva AI

By the numbers

What we bring to every engagement

50 yrs
Combined experience

Across in-house roles, private practice, advisory and AI implementation. Depth you can draw on across the full range of what your business needs.

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Hourly billing

Every engagement is fixed fee or fixed rate. You know what you are paying before anything starts. No clock running in the background.

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Connected practices

Legal advisory and AI consultancy. Two distinct offerings, one team. Built to work together — and to serve clients across both when the need arises.

Get in touch

Not sure where to start?

Start with a Legal Discovery Day, book a call, or send us an email. We will tell you quickly whether and how we can help — and if we cannot, we will point you to someone who can.

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