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.
Attorneys 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 navigating a complex negotiation, preparing for a major transition, or building governance for growth, the strategic perspective provided transforms legal counsel from a cost center to a competitive advantage.
Why It Matters
Strategic counsel identifies and addresses issues before they become problems, saving time, money, and stress.
Legal implications inform business decisions. Integrated counsel means better outcomes across the board.
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. Attorneys serve as an extension of your leadership team, providing proactive guidance on legal matters that affect business decisions.
Optimizing your corporate structure for growth, liability protection, and tax efficiency. Attorneys analyze existing structures and recommend changes to better serve your evolving business needs.
Comprehensive evaluation of legal risks across your business. Attorneys identify exposures, prioritize concerns, and develop strategies to mitigate risks before they become problems.
Strategic counsel for high-stakes negotiations, major contracts, partnerships, settlements, and business deals. Your attorney helps you prepare, develop leverage, and achieve optimal outcomes.
Creative structuring of complex transactions to achieve business objectives while managing risk. Your attorney designs deal structures that work for all parties and anticipate potential issues.
Navigating regulatory requirements that apply to your industry. Your attorney 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. Attorneys advise on board composition, policies, and best practices.
Counsel to boards of directors on fiduciary duties, major decisions, and governance matters. Attorneys help boards navigate complex situations with confidence.
Strategic counsel for significant vendor and supplier relationships. Your attorney 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 attorney protects your interests in what often becomes a significant long-term obligation.
Planning for leadership and ownership transitions. Your attorney helps business owners and executives prepare for the future while maintaining operational continuity.
Strategic preparation for business exits, whether sale, transition, or wind-down. Your attorney helps you maximize value, prepare for due diligence, and position for successful transactions.
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 is conducted—contracts, governance, risks, or specific issues—and a strategic assessment is provided.
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
Traditional legal services are often reactive—you bring a specific problem, it gets solved. Strategic consulting is proactive and ongoing. Your attorney understands your business deeply and anticipates legal issues before they arise, staying involved in strategic discussions, not just legal clean-up.
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 are provided—handling routine matters, coordinating specialists when needed, and serving as your primary legal resource. The team integrates with your operations while providing the flexibility of outside counsel.
The focus is on business, contract, and governance matters. For specialized needs—litigation, regulatory, IP prosecution—relationships with trusted specialists are maintained and their involvement coordinated when needed. You get integrated legal support without needing to manage multiple counsel.
Attorneys 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.