Corporate Legal Services

Legal departments of corporations are under increasing pressure to control costs and meet demands to grow profits, need assistance with the mounting burden of agreements that are a natural result of growth. Managing contracts is labor intensive and expensive. We have more than 10 years of experience with all phases of the contracting process from creation through execution. We have assisted clients with the development of templates to streamline their contracting process as well as assisting with the negotiation phase of contract drafting. We typically deal directly with our clients’ legal and contract professionals; however, in some cases, where appropriate, we also deal directly with third parties on our client’s behalf, using business and legal standards provided by the client.  

Multi-national companies and law firms must be vigilant in monitoring regulatory requirements in the respective countries in which they do business. Keeping up with the changing regulatory environment and tracking statutory deadlines is not only a substantial administrative burden, it also carries significant downside risk to companies operating globally. We generally work closely with companies’ compliance groups to identify their particular regulatory needs.

Legal research, while indispensable, is often expensive and time consuming even for the most seasoned practitioner. In many cases, having a resource to compile and summarize the relevant authority will allow attorneys the time necessary to properly analyze the legal and strategic issues in the context of litigation or business decision making. Our experienced teams of researchers work in the arenas of litigation and non-litigation research, including the preparation of research memoranda, federal and state statutory and case law research, including multi-state surveys, international legal research, and preparation of comparisons of multiple jurisdictions’ laws with regard to issues relevant to our clients.

Our corporate legal services include:

• Contracts abstraction, review, drafting and management, including real estate lease abstraction.

• Focused offerings tailored for media and publishing companies (rights and royalties documentation, copyright infringement protection, non-disclosure agreements, pre-publication review for defamation, contracts preparation, review and management)

• Global regulatory compliance and legal research (banking regulations compliance, municipal securities offerings, 8-K and TARP compliance, 50 state surveys, international legal research, advertising and marketing review)

• M&A due diligence (buy and sell side due diligence review as well as post-acquisition contract summary services)

• Focused offerings tailored to address law driven HR and employee benefits processes (administrative claims, QDROs and QMCSOs, tax wage garnishment orders and IRS levies, equity compensation reporting procedures, employee benefit plan governance processes)

• Corporate secretarial services include drafting of corporate resolutions, minutes and other consents, for boards or shareholders, in order to meet legal guidelines in various jurisdictions to uphold corporate formalities. Experience with company laws with respect to domestic corporations in a number of foreign jurisdictions, particularly European jurisdictions.