Legal Services

Get practical and user-friendly support for your day to day legal matters

• A flexible, efficient and cost-effective way of securing experienced and business savvy legal support

• It's like having your own in-house legal counsel without commitment to full-time headcount and associated budget

• We can help you get the job done in the interim or add capacity at peak periods e.g. end of quarter/year

• We have a range of engagement models from ad-hoc to retained engagements

• We have particular experience dealing with commercial, contract, software/tech and IP/IT work

• Access our network of curated freelance talent for a range of legal specialisms.

• We work with your house-style, either as part of your team or more independently within an agreed framework

• We are experienced working in large multi-nationals, fast-growth start-ups and wide range of other enterprise

• We have extensive 'on-the-ground' international/cross-border experience

Virtual General Counsel

Executive/board level experience and leadership to inject strategic thinking and operational excellence to drive performance from your legal, compliance and/or IP functions

• Plug-in support that hits the ground running

• Outsource the worry of managing and optimising legal, IP and compliance

• Fill a gap in your capabilities or augment your current in-house team

• Kick-start your own legal, compliance and/or IP functions, with an option for on-going mentor support for new GC/in-house hires

• Execute special projects or critical transactions

• Design the service, focus and priorities best suited to your current circumstances

• Draw upon Boost's broader range of services, as appropriate

• As a small or medium company, punch above your weight with senior resources at competitive rates

• Set the right foundations and build high performance at critical stages in in your company's evolution and/or growth

• Assistance to prepare for exit and to help you achieve your planned outcomes

Risk & legal Compliance

Build robust programmes and test implementations to deliver assured risk management & compliance for the Board and other stakeholders. Control behavioural risks.

• Achieve better risk management and compliance by design with a disciplined, programmatic approach.

• Ensure that, if a regulator comes calling, you make a good first impression and your programmes are fit-for-purpose

• Engage our experience designing, building, implementing and operating end-to-end, fully-integrated ethics, governance, risk and compliance programmes across the world

• A flexible approach to supporting your end-to-end programmes or projects or leading/ supporting specific tasks only

• A design-led approach to tailor projects and implementation to your specific risks, scale and budgets

• A focus on building a positive compliance culture empowering employees as ‘ethical street-fighters’

• Facilitation of ‘High Level Risk Assessment’ workshops

• Support to complete specific ‘Legal Risk Assessments’ and horizon scanning, feeding into legal’s strategic and operational planning processes and risk registers

• Support to develop and apply principles and methods to determine relative priorities and budget allocation for identified risks/initiatives

• Design, build and implementation of risk mitigation and/or legal compliance programmes

• Set up and leadership of change acceleration projects to embed new programmes into culture

• Build out of Learning Management Systems, including development and evolution of subject specific e-learning content

• Monitoring and review of legal compliance programmes, including design bench-marking and auditing

• A range of easy to tailor ‘off-the-shelf’ compliance solutions available as an 'essentials only' solution

Strategic Legal Consulting

We partner with you to help you orientate, focus and identify pathways to manage for value and unlock the strategic potential of legal

• We can help you with your journey to mature the legal function from a reactive cost centre to pro-active, strategically aligned competitive differentiator

• Leverage experience, a design-led approach and a suite of tools to develop legal value maps, a vision and realistic plans tailored for your circumstances

• Strategic Legal Reviews to assess and record your current state and to define, in specific terms for you, what is the role of legal, why does it add value, what is the order of priority for resources/initiatives and how will value be realized

• Develop clear and integrated strategic legal plans and associated operating plans for your legal function, covering your current 'business as usual' and longer term performance improvement initiatives

• Identify and prioritize opportunities for services and cost improvement, including services un-bundling, self-service, lean business process re-engineering, alternative resourcing, legal panel reviews etc.

• Assistance with process mapping and business process re-engineering

• Implement appropriate initiatives to build and develop value-adding Legal Operations

• Achieve effective and lasting change with change acceleration processes and related programmes

• Better align legal to your identified corporate value drivers

• Develop blueprints and implement initiatives to build high performance and resilience into your legal culture, talent and operations

Corporate Value by Design

Balance legal, commercial and operations experience to drive a wide range of projects

• Drive break-though value with methodical and planned approach, iterate and improve existing operations and/or deliver growth or expansion ambition.  

• Architect, negotiate and establish strategic partnerships and Joint Ventures

• Assistance to prepare for and execute corporate transactions

• Design, build and roll-out new businesses/operations

• Setup and operate IP protection programmes

• Build R&D collaborations, whether within industry or with academia

• Plan and roll-out international business expansions

• Establish or evolve distribution channels and related programmes, particularly to access new international markets

• Complete internal ‘readiness assessments’ for exit events and make necessary preparations to support corporate value and to facilitate smooth transactions

• Assistance to procure new technology and to plan and complete implementations, either within general business or specifically for the legal department

Troubleshooting & Turnaround Support

Leverage rounded legal, financial and commercial experience to assist with root cause analysis and to deliver solutions or change initiatives

• Engage objectivity, critical thinking and root-cause analysis to help frame and diagnose your challenges.

• Work together to develop solution options tailored for your business and particular circumstances

• Commit to chosen options and develop clear plans and manage effective and efficient execution

• Obtain on-going support to implement chosen solutions

Transactions

Assistance to plan, orchestrate, manage and deliver critical corporate or commercial transactions

• Add experience and expertise to help complete ‘must do’ or ‘must win’ transactions

• Flexible engagement models

• Assistance to develop transaction blueprints, tactics and engagement plans

• Help leading legal aspects and orchestrating internal and external resources

• Leadership or assistance with negotiation, drafting, transaction management and corporate/board briefings

Patents, Trademarks & Specialist IP Services

Access a broad range of standard IP services and specialised IP solutions from subject matter experts

• Access advice across the full spectrum of national and international IP rights, including copyright, design rights, database rights, trademarks and patents

• Complete IP searches, applications and periodic renewals filings management

• Expert IP opinions

• Opposition strategies, advice and prosecution of proceedings

• IP protection strategies for start-ups through to large scale international R&D functions to help you manage IP lifecycles and realize more value

• IP valuation due diligence and reports, addressing both legal and commercial aspects

• Competitor IP reports and analysis

• Expert support for IP aspects of corporate or commercial transactions e.g. licensing etc

• IP brokering, licensing and monetization strategy and execution support

Training & Development

A range of training services to cover your legal, IP and compliance needs

• Flexible options from simple, high-level and broad scope training packages to deeper-dive workshops on specialist topics

• Training to support general learning and development needs of your employees

• Build out of training materials for use with compliance programmes

• Design and deliver of training events and workshops e.g. for GDPR programme rollouts

• Access to a range of e-learning solutions