About

Legal services should feel inspiring, not intimidating.

Founded by Isabella Royce, EN–SEMBLE is a commercial law studio for businesses that value clarity, curiosity, and considered advice. Named for its meaning — “together” — EN–SEMBLE reflects a belief in collaboration: between lawyer and client, and between the creative and corporate worlds the studio was built to connect.

We replace the traditional, transactional legal model with a creative approach — transforming legal advice from a formality into a trusted part of your business:

A place you actually want to be.

The Story Behind the Studio

After years in hyper-corporate environments — firms, courtrooms, and boardrooms — Isabella found herself split between two worlds: law and writing. As a commercial litigator, she built a respected career, recognised nationally for her work, yet found little space for authenticity or imagination. In her writing life, she found creativity and connection — but saw how creative professionals were too often dismissed as “uncommercial”.

Rather than choose between fulfilment and security, she built something new.

EN–SEMBLE was born from that tension — a refusal to accept business as usual, and a belief that law could be both inspiring and empowering. A place where corporate and creative worlds meet as equals — with intelligence and imagination.

Experience and Expertise

An award-winning senior commercial lawyer and writer, Isabella’s career spans private practice, in-house roles, and international advisory work.

Before founding EN–SEMBLE, she led complex matters at a boutique Melbourne firm across contract, employment, intellectual property and shareholder disputes, and later served as Senior Legal Counsel at Victoria's peak business and industry body: overseeing governance, domestic and global negotiations.

Her practice now spans technology, e-commerce, professional services, design, media and the wider creative industries — advising founders, startups, and established organisations across Australian and abroad. Internationally, she has worked with the United Nations in Geneva and as Head of Strategy and Delivery for the FDI Control Forum in Paris, leading international strategy and brand transformation. Alongside her legal work, Isabella is a writer and creative strategist recognised by the Australian Writers’ Guild and Australians in Film. Her creative practice — shaped by cinema, design, literature and art — informs her approach to communication and connection.

These dual practices sharpen one another: clarity of language strengthens her legal work; analytical precision deepens her creative one.

The result is legal advice that’s rigorous and empathetic — law expressed with intelligence and warmth.

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