Legal Advice

Most legal questions in a business arrive attached to a decision that has already half been made. Someone wants to know whether the deal can be signed on Friday, whether the clause the other side sent is acceptable, whether a plan creates exposure nobody has priced. The value of advice at that point is not a memorandum; it is a clear answer, quickly, from someone who has seen the same situation before and knows which parts of it actually matter.

Consultancy advice is the ongoing version of that: a lawyer who knows the business well enough to answer without being briefed from the beginning every time. Typically it covers:

• a reading of the decision in front of you, with the risks ranked rather than listed;
• a view on which option is defensible and which merely looks safer;
• the wording to use when a clause has to be pushed back on;
• a second opinion on advice you have already received elsewhere;
• guidance on structuring a transaction before it is committed to paper;
• an assessment of exposure when something has already gone wrong;
• practical steps to close a gap you have discovered in your own arrangements;
• an escalation route when a question turns out to need specialist depth.

Our lawyers can support you with this.