We stand ready to support your executive or in-house legal teams with overseeing, identifying and resolving legal issues in all departments as well as corporate governance and business policy.
Advisory services to founders, shareholders, the board and C-suite executives:
Expansions, acquisitions, restructurings and downsizing decisions
Enterprise risk management exercises
Financings
Corporate governance and maintenance
Relationships with brand-owners and distributors
Founder and shareholder rights
Directors and officers rights, duties, obligations and liabilities
Advisory services to management and in-house legal teams in regards to day-to-day matters:
Contract reviews and red flag reports
Contract drafting and negotiations
Drafting template contracts and documents
Advising on laws and establishing or updating related business policies/processes
Organizing or participating in tenders and RFPs
IP protection
Privacy and confidentiality
Advisory services relating to pre-dispute and dispute strategy and counseling and oversight of regional and local litigation counsel:
Debt recovery and collections
Breaches of contract
Shareholder disputes
Labor and employment
IP infringement
Unfair competition
Breaches of privacy and confidentiality
Advisory services relating to productivity/efficiency, legal technology, internal marketing and reporting, and setting up external law firm panels:
Legal department strategy and formation
Setting objectives and SLAs and tracking performance
Standardizing internal reporting
Marketing and communicating performance internally
Identifying, acquiring and implementing time saving technologies
Organizational design and resource optimization
Spend analytics and management
Performance benchmarking and metrics
Legal service delivery
We have assembled a strong team of practitioners with unparalleled international in-house experience that can provide you with pragmatic advice and support in regards to the following areas across a variety of industries:
Corporate governance and compliance department strategy and formation
Setting objectives and SLAs and tracking performance
Standardizing internal reporting
Marketing and communicating performance internally
Identifying, acquiring and implementing time saving technologies
Organizational design and resource optimization
Spend analytics and management
Performance benchmarking and metrics
Anti-bribery and anti-corruption
Trade sanctions and export control
Conducting risk assessments, corporate investigations and compliance audits
Compliance reviews in the context of M&A
Tailoring and delivering training on the law and ethics and compliance matters to lawyers and non-lawyers and interpersonal and communication skills to lawyers:
Contract formation, interpretation and management
Precedent contracts and business policies
Challenging interpersonal situations using role play and real play methods
Shareholder, director and founder concerns
Regulatory frameworks and compliance
Current or new laws pertinent to the client’s business
We advise on all types of commercial transactions and provide all types of related legal services from simple red-flag review of vendor and customer contracts, to M&A due diligence, to drafting, negotiating and executing complex cross-border transactions from term sheet through to definitive agreements, and successfully and efficiently close deals within cost and time budgets.
Find out moreWe offer unparalleled access to top-tier advisers skilled in interfacing with C-suite corporate executives and high-level government officials, leading senior level ‘high stakes’ negotiations, structuring innovative deals, managing disputes and drafting, rolling out and monitoring compliance programs in a myriad of industries.
Find out moreMay 28, 2020
COVID-19 has forced us to consider the office. The office is sometimes described as: “a room, set of rooms, or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work.” COVID-19 has shown that the office can be the kitchen, the bedroom or the bathroom (as one viral video made the unfortunate point). Here is a relevant article that piqued my interest: The Economist | Death of the office Of particular interest to me was the following reference to a Roman lawyer who pioneered Argentum Law’s model a little while ago.
April 29, 2020
As the world moves into six weeks since the wide imposition of lockdowns and travel restrictions, some national governments have acted relatively swiftly to provide relief to small businesses. We include some of the key measures taken in the US, UK, Germany and Belgium which may be indicative of potential relief measures taken by countries. We will continue to push updates on these as well as other jurisdictions where our clients are based…
