General Counsel
We offer ongoing General Counsel that gives businesses and entrepreneurs ongoing, direct access to strategic legal advice,without the need to maintain an in-house legal team.
Through a tailored legal retainer, we become your outsourced legal counsel—a trusted confidant and extension of your leadership team, supporting the decisions, opportunities and challenges that shape your business.
Contracts & agreements
We consistently review and negotiate contracts and agreements as they come up in the day-to-day running of your business. Everything with your name on it will be legally sound and commercially effective.
Acquisitions & growth
As your business grows and new opportunities arise, we guide you through acquisitions and transactions from due diligence to completion. With us across the finer details, you can pursue the right opportunities with confidence.
Corporate governance
We help you manage business risk, follow laws and guide boards on directors' duties. This often includes drafting rules, handle shareholder relations, and ensure compliance with regulators.
Dispute prevention & management
The best disputes are the ones that never happen. As your legal counsel, we help spot and manage risk before it escalates. Where a dispute does arise, our litigation lawyers combine experienced advocacy with practical solutions to resolve it efficiently.
Property & leasing
We help you draft, review, and negotiate commercial, retail, and residential leases as they arise. From managing property transactions to resolving disputes, we make sure your property interests are protected now and in the future.
What you can expect
Your dedicated legal adviser, on hand when you need it
We work closely with you over time, developing a detailed understanding of your people and commercial objectives. This allows us to provide considered, commercially focused advice when it matters, not just after an issue has escalated. We only take on a selected group of businesses at any one time so you always have our team’s full attention.
Our arrangement is crafted around your needs, whether that involves day-to-day commercial contracts, corporate governance, property and leasing, acquisitions, employment issues, dispute management or longer-term business succession. The result is a dedicated legal adviser with the context, care and continuity to help you move forward with confidence.
Approach
Mitch and Peter have been excellent. They went above and beyond for me. They are easily reachable and their work is flawless. I will be recommending them to anyone.
General Counsel questions
Frequently asked questions
Here are some questions our clients often ask us before we start working together. Head over to our FAQs page for more.
General Counsel is an ongoing legal advisory service for businesses that want regular access to experienced commercial lawyers without employing a full-time in-house counsel. It operates through a tailored retainer, providing strategic legal support as issues and opportunities arise.
A one-off engagement is focused on resolving a particular issue. As your dedicated legal adviser, we build an understanding of your business over time, allowing us to give faster, more strategic and better-informed advice across your commercial affairs.
We can assist with commercial contracts, business acquisitions and sales, corporate governance, property and leasing, dispute prevention and resolution, succession planning and general strategic legal advice. The scope of each arrangement is tailored to the business’s priorities and requirements.
Yes. It is designed for growing, established and family-owned businesses that require reliable legal support but do not need, or wish to maintain, a full-time in-house legal function. It offers a flexible way to access consistent, senior-level commercial legal advice.
We begin by understanding your business, objectives and anticipated legal needs, then develop a tailored retainer arrangement. This provides clarity around the support available and creates a direct, ongoing relationship with your legal adviser.
To express your interest, please head over to our contact page and reach out to our team. We'll then be able to assess whether we think you're a good fit for this retainer. We only take on a selected group of businesses at any one time so you always have our team's full attention.
