Deloitte Legal

Skilled and experienced Deloitte Legal* practitioners work collaboratively with other Deloitte professionals in tax, consulting, risk and financial advisory to guide their clients through challenges in a coordinated way around the world. Deloitte Legal*, present in over 80 countries, is able to provide holistic guidance around strategic business decisions, as well as offer support services that can increase efficiency and reduce the cost of some routine legal activities. As part of the Deloitte organization (the global network of member firms and related entities), Deloitte Legal* helps clients in delivering multinational legal solutions that are consistent, technology-enabled, tailored, and sensitized.

Deloitte Legal* offers pioneering, yet pragmatic advice in many fields of national and international business law. Its professionals provide tailored solutions for demanding projects and complex domestic and international transactions. It offers multidisciplinary advice incorporating tax, consulting, risk, and financial advisory.

Whether family-owned smaller and medium-sized companies, listed stock corporations or international groups of companies—Deloitte Legal* covers the fields of business law that are important to our clients.

Deloitte Legal* understands legal advice not as an isolated component, but as a contribution to a comprehensive solution of the issues that companies face. Working with other Deloitte colleagues, Deloitte Legal* can help clients to make informed decisions in the context of legal as well as other business considerations.

* “Deloitte Legal” means the legal practices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firm affiliates that provide legal services. For legal and regulatory reasons, not all member firms provide legal services

Main areas of practice: Deloitte Legal organizes its market offerings around three key areas:

Legal Management Consulting: Deloitte’s Legal Management Consulting (LMC) services were developed in collaboration with experts from across Deloitte practice areas such as mainstream management consultancy, risk advisory, tax management consulting, and, of course, legal. The services are configured to identify opportunities to help the general counsel and the legal department as a whole achieve their desired state: Deloitte practitioners from numerous disciplines collaborate on a long-term roadmap to realize the client’s vision. They benchmark that roadmap with achievable goals, and work with the client from inception to completion.

Deloitte Legal’s LMC services includes assessing and developing legal operating models, evaluating and reconfiguring internal legal processes, developing frameworks for legal risk management, assisting with sourcing (balancing in-house resources with external third party providers), developing and deploying legal technology architecture, and facilitating tailored labs to develop solutions.

Legal managed services: Deloitte’s legal managed services were developed to help legal departments keep up with the demands from their businesses for support on a range of legal issues. The legal professionals employ technology (such as dTrax – Deloitte’s award-winning contract management solution) and proven methodologies to act as an extension of a company’s in-house legal team, driving efficiencies through process improvement, and providing support and guidance to help enable their focus to shift to more strategic issues.

Support is offered for:

• • Legal document reviews
  • Legal contracting drafting, reviews and negotiations
  • Legal operations and spend management
  • Legal contract and commercial management
  • Legal entity management
  • “Legal Counsel as a Service”

Legal advisory: Deloitte Legal advisors assist multinational organizations with day-to-day activities as well as corporate life events across many jurisdictions. Deloitte Legal’s professionals leverage leading technologies to deliver efficient and transparent support for the everyday legal activities companies manage.

Deloitte Legal practitioners understand that global organizations are enormously complex organisms, and no one unit is sealed off from the rest. The multi-disciplinary, tech-enabled legal approach allows Deloitte Legal to address legal questions not just in the abstract isolated way but with a holistic understanding of what the client organization is trying to achieve.

With a client-centric approach, Deloitte Legal practitioners expand their knowledge about their clients, the industries they operate in, their regulatory and legislative environments around the world to bring more to the table and provide the best possible legal advice to clients.

Guidance, advice and support are offered in the areas of:

• Corporate law
• IP law
• Technology law
• Dispute resolution
• Employment law and benefits
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Regulatory and compliance
• Private clients legal services
• Real estate
• Banking and and finance
• Commercial law