Corporate & Commercial.
Every company runs on contracts most people never read until something breaks. We draft the agreements a business actually lives by — and we are in the room early, beside our mergers and acquisitions colleagues, when the paperwork becomes a deal.
800+Commercial agreements drafted and negotiated each year
150+Companies served on standing outside-counsel retainers
24hStandard turnaround on urgent contract reviews
Overview
Good commercial law is invisible — the deal just works. The supply keeps moving, the invoices get paid, the partnership survives its first real disagreement. That quiet is not luck; it is drafting. We provide the drafting.
Formation and governance, shareholder and operating agreements, sales, supply, distribution, licensing and joint-venture contracts, and day-to-day outside general counsel. Built for companies that want one firm to know the whole business, not five firms knowing a slice each.
Companies with overseas counterparties get one coordinated front: our Chicago office negotiates the master terms while our London headquarters and associated counsel in Singapore conform the local-law pieces. Same contract, same standard, three time zones accounted for.
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They are the general counsel we could not afford to hire full-time — and now will never do without.CEO survey, 2025
A supplier contract they redrafted paid for itself the first time we had to invoke it.Operations director, 2025
Recent work
Matters we're proud of
Governance
Shareholder deadlock resolved and board structure rebuilt
Contracts
Supply and distribution suite standardized across four divisions
Joint venture
Fifty-fifty venture documented with a workable exit mechanism
Formation
Founder equity and vesting framework set for a funded startup
Latest articles and knowledge
Deadlock provisions for fifty-fifty companies that still function
Outside general counsel: when the retainer beats the hire
Counsel for the life of your company
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