What do we do?
We offer a fractional in-house counsel service for businesses in Africa, with a focus on delivering real commercial legal value.
We take on legal advisory, drafting, consulting and retainer work, and focus on providing pragmatic, commercially-focused and context-driven legal services.
We are genuinely curious about our clients' businesses and believe in the value of using outside legal and compliance counsel with a deep understanding of in-house reality.
We are generalist commercial advisors with a history of executing successfully on a wide range of commercial legal and compliance projects, including equity and debt raises, cross-border transactions and commercial restructures.
Reasons that you may want to work with us:
- Your business is looking for assistance in identifying, and addressing your short to long term legal and compliance needs (from contracts to risk registers).
- You are looking to bolster your existing legal and compliance team.
- You have a transaction, series of transactions or a project that you're pursuing, and are looking for strategic and execution assistance.
- You are looking for a legal advisor with a commercial focus, and a broad range of experience in commercial transactions, the realities of tech-based companies, commercial structuring, capital raising and employee incentives, cross-border projects and general contracting, company secretarial and compliance work.
How are we different?
We are not an attorney firm. We will always advocate for bringing in specialist legal and other advisors when this is warranted, but we differentiate ourselves in understanding context, asking the right questions, and providing a risk-based, solutions-focused and pragmatic legal and compliance service, in the style of in-house General Counsel.
We prefer to work with a small group of clients that we know and who enjoy working with us. Relationships matter to us and we enjoy executing on valuable work for clients, as and when they need it most.
We provide flexible fixed-fee services, mostly on a project or retainer basis.