THE OFFSITE GENERAL COUNSEL IS FLEXIBLE, AGILE AND ON-DEMAND. WE PLUG SEAMLESSLY INTO YOUR BUSINESS TO DELIVER PRAGMATIC, ACTIONABLE ADVICE THAT IS ATTUNED TO BUSINESS EXIGENCIES AND COMMERCIAL STRATEGY
We can work in your office alongside your own legal team, provide an in-house legal function as seconded counsel or support your business remotely.
BUSINESS & INVESTMENT FUND SET-UP
Getting you up and running
We advise on how to best to set up and structure your business or investment initiative by helping navigate the pros and cons of mainland, free zone and other jurisdictional options, and assisting with development of a suitable capital structure that is tax-efficient and accommodating of expansion plans, capital repatriation, dividend policies and proper corporate governance.
TELECOMS, TECHNOLOGY AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS
We negotiate agreements that help you monetize your technology and IP, and which help ensure you get what you pay for when you procure tech solutions for your business
We act for licensors and licensees of software, technical know-how, trademarks, service marks and copyrights, and advise how these assets, along with trade secrets, can best be protected by contract and corporate best practices. We have deep knowledge of the telecoms industry and its convergence with data and content.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Processes and practices to align stakeholders, board members and management
We help investors and companies develop and deploy practices that facilitate stakeholder co-ordination and alignment, all in line with the latest techniques in leading jurisdictions.
CORPORATE FINANCE TRANSACTIONS
Need to borrow or lend funds? Or raise capital? Look to us to advise and negotiate your financing transactions
We advise corporates and investors on an array of financial transactional matters. We have acted for borrowers seeking credit through bilateral, club and syndicated bank borrowings, or by accessing the debt capital markets. We help businesses raise equity through private placements, initial and secondary offerings, and advise companies young and old on capital raising initiatives generally.
M&A, JOINT VENTURES AND STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
Buying or selling? Joining forces with other businesses? We help consummate strategic acquisitions and divestitures, and bring about collaborations that are far greater than the sum of their parts
We advise stakeholders on exits through sales to strategic and financial buyers, and have acted on significant buy- and sell- side mandates in the technology, energy, finance, insurance, media, telecommunications, hospitality and food and beverage industries.
LEGAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Helping ensure discipline and capturing maximum value from your external lawyers
We have been lawyers long enough to understand how external legal advisers operate, and how you can get the best out of them. Leave it to us to manage them.
COMPLEX NEGOTIATIONS
Winning more, conceding less, and moving beyond zero sum.
We have negotiated intricate financing deals and acquisitions, complex multi-party contracts and mission critical projects. We have even helped settle disputes. Let us put those skills to work for you.
We target our services to companies, start-ups, investor groups and business sponsors (i) without in-house legal counsel who need regular, on-going legal support but do not wish to hire a full-time in-house lawyer, (ii) with in-house counsel who want to avoid adding more full-time resources to their existing staff and (iii) that require fresh thinking in furtherance of expansion plans, critical projects or strategic transactions. Like a full time in-house counsel, the Offsite General Counsel can be embedded in your management.
We aim to become trusted legal advisors, providing counsel over the long term and sharing in our clients' success, from business set-up through funding, expansion and transformational projects.
We can help shoulder the responsibility of your legal affairs, from every day matters to bet-the-company deals.