Ongoing advisory relationships and strategic counsel for executives navigating complex negotiations, major transitions, and business challenges.
Strategic Counsel
Business leaders need legal counsel that understands business, not just law. Strategic consulting means integrating legal thinking into your decision-making process, not bolting it on after decisions are made.
Lawyers work with executives who want more than transactional legal services. They want counsel who understands their business, anticipates issues, and provides guidance that moves them toward their goals.
Whether you're preparing for a negotiation, a major transition, or a governance decision, counsel can help clarify options and translate decisions into workable documents and processes.
Why It Matters
Strategic counsel helps identify legal issues early enough to consider options before decisions are fixed.
Legal implications inform business decisions. Consistent counsel helps owners weigh tradeoffs before acting.
Counsel who knows your business provides more relevant, efficient advice than lawyers starting from scratch each time.
Legal strategy aligned with business strategy means your legal resources support, rather than hinder, your goals.
Ongoing relationships are more efficient than episodic engagement. Less ramp-up time means more value per dollar.
Knowing you have trusted counsel available provides confidence to pursue opportunities and navigate challenges.
Services
From ongoing counsel to specific initiatives, strategic legal support is tailored to your needs.
Ongoing legal counsel that integrates with your business strategy. Lawyers serve as an extension of your leadership team, providing proactive guidance on legal matters that affect business decisions.
Lawyers assess entity and governance structures against your business plans, liability considerations, and tax advice, then recommend changes suited to your priorities.
Comprehensive evaluation of legal risks across your business. Lawyers identify exposures, prioritize concerns, and develop strategies to mitigate risks before they become problems.
Counsel for major contracts, partnerships, and business deals. Your lawyer helps assess the terms, prepare a negotiating position, and weigh practical tradeoffs.
Your lawyer assesses transaction structures against business objectives, allocation of risk, and the obligations each party will undertake.
Navigating regulatory requirements that apply to your industry. Your lawyer helps you understand obligations, develop compliance programs, and prepare for regulatory changes.
Establishing and maintaining governance structures that protect directors, satisfy stakeholders, and support growth. Lawyers advise on board composition, policies, and best practices.
Counsel to boards of directors on fiduciary duties, major decisions, and governance matters. Lawyers help boards navigate complex situations with confidence.
Strategic counsel for significant vendor and supplier relationships. Your lawyer helps you negotiate favorable terms, manage risk, and structure agreements that serve your long-term interests.
Counsel for commercial lease negotiations, new locations, renewals, and restructuring. Your lawyer protects your interests in what often becomes a significant long-term obligation.
Planning for leadership and ownership transitions. Your lawyer helps business owners and executives prepare for the future while maintaining operational continuity.
Preparation for business exits, whether sale, transition, or wind-down. Your lawyer helps assess options, prepare for due diligence, and negotiate terms that reflect your priorities.
Modern Advisory
Strategic advisory doesn't require being in the same city. The virtual-first model means you have access to counsel whenever and wherever you need guidance.
Video strategy sessions provide face-to-face engagement for complex discussions without travel requirements.
Async communication through MyRelevant means quick questions get answered promptly without scheduling delays.
Document collaboration keeps all your strategic materials organized and accessible from any device.
MyRelevant for Advisory
All your key documents, contracts, governance records, strategic memos, organized and accessible.
Get answers to strategic questions without scheduling calls. Direct access when you need guidance.
Schedule regular or ad-hoc strategy sessions through the portal at your convenience.
Video conferences for in-depth discussions from anywhere.
Share sensitive materials securely with controlled access for your team.
Complete record of advice and recommendations for future reference and consistency.
The Process
From initial discovery through ongoing counsel, here's how strategic advisory relationships develop.
The initial conversation covers your business, challenges, and objectives. This helps identify how best to support your strategic legal needs.
60-90 minutes
Based on your needs, the scope of the advisory relationship is defined: ongoing retainer, project-based engagement, or situational support.
1-2 days
An initial review of relevant legal matters considers contracts, governance, risks, or specific issues, followed by recommendations within the agreed scope.
1-2 weeks
Recommendations and action plans are developed and tailored to your priorities and resources. You maintain decision-making control with informed options.
Varies by scope
The team supports implementation of strategic initiatives: document preparation, negotiation support, governance changes, or other action items.
Ongoing
The advisory relationship continues through your MyRelevant portal: quick questions, periodic reviews, and strategic counsel when you need it.
Ongoing
Common Questions
An ongoing advisory relationship gives your lawyer context for decisions about contracts, governance, and transactions. Rather than reviewing each question in isolation, counsel can help you weigh options and plan implementation as needs change.
Advisory relationships vary based on your needs. Some clients engage on retainer for monthly strategy sessions and unlimited quick questions. Others use the team for specific situations: major negotiations, governance transitions, or strategic planning. Relationships are designed to fit how you operate.
Consider strategic counsel when legal matters increasingly affect business decisions, when you're preparing for significant changes (growth, exit, investment), or when you want proactive guidance rather than reactive problem-solving. Growing businesses often reach a point where ad-hoc legal help isn't sufficient.
Yes. For companies without in-house legal teams, outside general counsel services cover routine advisory matters and coordination with separate counsel when needed. The scope of the relationship is agreed with your lawyer.
The focus is on business, contract, and governance matters. Matters requiring litigation counsel or other services outside that scope need separate counsel. Your lawyer can identify where a referral is appropriate.
Lawyers work across industries: technology, professional services, healthcare, manufacturing, real estate, and more. The focus is on business fundamentals that apply across sectors, combined with learning your specific industry context.
Advisory relationships are typically structured as monthly retainers, providing predictable costs and unlimited access for covered matters. Project-based work uses fixed fees or hourly arrangements depending on scope. Pricing is discussed openly to find structures that work for your budget.
Absolutely. Many advisory relationships begin with a specific project, risk assessment, governance review, or negotiation support. This lets both sides evaluate fit before committing to ongoing engagement. There's no pressure to expand beyond what you need.
Related Services
Whether you need ongoing advisory support or help with a specific strategic challenge, the team is ready to discuss how to help you achieve your goals.