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Contracts & Transactions

BUSINESS CONTRACTS & AGREEMENTS

Whether structuring, operating, or adapting a company, various contracts and agreements come into play.  These range from Commercial and Operations-Related Agreements to Entity / Corporate Transactional to General Business Contracts (many of which overlap with other practice areas (e.g., funds, technology, IP, employment, real estate).   

While size, industry, product / service, among other factors, influence the extent / scope of what contracts a company will address—ultimately, some form and combination of transactions will represent an essential part of doing business, whatever your company’s situation and outlook.

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Bellwether can address and advise across the range of transactions, as needed—and more generally as to broader business interests and risks.

 

This includes the competing interests typically involved in transactional situations:

  1. Striking a balance between the parties’ opposing interests and positions; 

  2. Sufficient precision in: (A) containing a client’s potential risks and liabilities; and (B) securing and advancing a client’s business and commercial interests.

Effective analysis is cross-disciplinary on two levels: between legal scopes and legal-to-business scopes.

On both fronts, Bellwether is positioned to analyze, troubleshoot, and implement the strategies to serve your company’s objectives.

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Experience and versatility deliver value: over "cross-disciplinary" teams that larger firms boast and deploy; and over "niche" or "specializing" boutiques and small firms.

Identifying & troubleshooting existing frameworks and then the legally gray, nebulous, or uncharted, requires insight not manpower:  

Specifically, insight and familiarity with the sources of those legal and regulatory risks; and Bellwether draws on extensive experiences in:

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  1. Litigating a range of contract disputes; and

  2. Strategic planning across regulatory various frameworks.

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Bellwether brings a track record demonstrating a driving principle behind the Firm:

Versatility & Specialized Knowledge are functions of the research, critical thinking and analytical approach

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Bellwether delivers value on the legal front by eliminating the unnecessary direct costs and inefficiencies of multiple firms or multiple teams within larger firms.  But the legal analysis is just the means an end:               

Successful outcomes require the ability to explore purely legal issues while maintaining a focus on business judgment, strategy, and risk management

This goes to the emphasized advantages of advisory via outside general counsel roles and/or Bellwether's full-service scope: better familiarity with the business and collaboration with company clients, in turn means a better product, and one less available via dispersed teams and narrowed scopes of niche practices.

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