Legal
Commercial, contractual and regulatory risk, read in business terms.
Mitigate. Navigate.
Legal
Discipline 05 of 06
Not a list of everything that could go wrong — a judgement about what is worth insuring against and what is not. Risk registers that treat every item equally are a way of avoiding the decision rather than making it.
Discuss a legal engagementWhat it covers
The work
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Commercial contracting
The agreements the business actually runs on, and the terms in them that only matter on a bad day.
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Regulatory exposure
What applies, what is coming, and what the practical cost of compliance is.
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Dispute posture
Whether to fight, settle or restructure around it — decided on economics rather than on principle.
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04
Governance and records
The documentation that determines who decided what, which is the first thing anyone asks for.
Method
How we work on it
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01
Rank by consequence
Exposures are sorted by what they would actually cost and how likely they are, not by how alarming they sound.
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Read the counterparty
The same clause means different things depending on who is across the table and what they need from the relationship.
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Fix it upstream
Most disputes are decided by how the agreement was drafted and how the file was kept, long before anyone is in a room arguing.
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Talk to us about legal
Describe the decision in front of you. You will get a considered reply and a straight answer about whether this is work we should be doing.