SOUTH AFRICA OUTSOURCING COMPANY

DESCRIPTION
About us

As an acknowledgement of the impact of a rapidly evolving legal industry – one that demands legal services providers to work faster, smarter and at a lower cost, - Legal & Commercial Solutions was founded to provide clients with broad based corporate legal services delivered in a manner that has an “in-house” legal department feel.

By bringing together a wealth of legal experience and business acumen, we offer services and flexible solutions that will help companies and legal departments maximize productivity, promote excellence and lower costs. The experience and skill of our professionals combined with the area specific expertise of our strategic alliance partners ensures that all your corporate legal requirements from company secretarial, intellectual property management and human resources to review and drafting of legal documents are taken care of in a seamless and efficient manner with a customized feel.

Legal & Commercial Solutions is uniquely placed and differentiated from traditional legal service providers. We realise that turn around time and cost effectiveness are as important as the quality of our work.


What we do

Our aim is to build, enhance and deliver our unique solution to proactively support our clients’ vision, strategies and initiatives and to become their trusted advisors.

We do this in 3 ways:

· Deep legal expertise
· Broad business acumen
· Relationships

In-house legal departments

In-house legal departments face the challenge of managing increasing corporate responsibilities and compliance requirements, often in the face of decreasing budgets and headcount constraints.

Legal & Commercial Solutions helps extend the in-house legal department support infrastructure by providing flexible solutions to meet the specific and changing needs of the department.

From document and template creation to projects and flexible staffing requirements, Legal & Commercial Solutions is able to support an in-house team in an efficient and cost effective way.

Legal services outsourced

We offer the full spectrum of commercial legal services including:

Governance and company secretarial
· Review of business and the business environment to assess legal requirements, compliance with laws and governance and making recommendations to implement best practice.
· Company secretarial audits.
· Full spectrum of company secretarial services, including formation of companies, appointment of directors and officers and maintaining all statutory records.
· Preparing agendas and notices for board meetings, attending board meetings and preparing minutes.

Corporate and commercial
· Assessing the need for and drafting appropriate agreements to protect clients interests.
· Reviewing agreements and legal documents and preparing reports, recommendations or executive summaries to highlight onerous provisions, on-going obligations or required actions.
· Identification and summary of relevant case law.
· Due diligence investigations and reports.

Litigation
· Litigation management.
· Interviewing witnesses and taking statements.
· Preparing summaries of voluminous documents.

Human Resources
· Drafting employment contracts and independent contractor service agreements.
· Assessing the need for and drafting HR policies.
· Assisting with disciplinary and grievance procedures.

Intellectual property
· Advice and planning on an intellectual property strategy.
· Assistance with registration of trademarks, patents and designs.
· Management of intellectual property portfolios

SKILLS
Corporate and commercial
· Assessing the need for and drafting appropriate agreements to protect clients interests.
· Reviewing agreements and legal documents and preparing reports, recommendations or executive summaries to highlight onerous provisions, on-going obligations or required actions.
· Identification and summary of relevant case law.
· Due diligence investigations and reports.

Litigation
· Litigation management.
· Interviewing witnesses and taking statements.
· Preparing summaries of voluminous documents.

Human Resources
· Drafting employment contracts and independent contractor service agreements.
· Assessing the need for and drafting HR policies.
· Assisting with disciplinary and grievance procedures.

Intellectual property
· Advice and planning on an intellectual property strategy.
· Assistance with registration of trademarks, patents and designs.
· Management of intellectual property portfolios

TERMS
Our fees and billing are flexible and negotiable depending on the complexity, turn around time and volume of work. We try to avoid the uncertainty of time-based billing and are willing to work on a fixed fee or retainer basis.

LOCATION South Africa - Johannesburg, Gauteng EMPLOYEES 1-5 YEARS IN BUSINESS 11+ years CONTACT INFORMATION Register or Login to view the outsourcing service provider contact information.