Sabara Law LLC

Deloitte Legal International (DLI) was established in 2018 providing full international legal services using Singapore as a regional hub to serve clients in Southeast Asia. DLI is part of the global Deloitte Legal (DL) network that comprises over 2000 legal professionals in more than 80 countries providing 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. Skilled and experienced Deloitte Legal* practitioners work together with other Deloitte professionals in tax, consulting, risk and financial advisory to guide their clients through a project in a coordinated way around the world. As part of the global Deloitte professional services network, Deloitte Legal* helps clients in delivering multinational legal solutions that are consistent, technology-enabled, tailored, and sensitized.

* “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 International organizes its market offerings around legal advisory and new law offerings.

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.

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

• Corporate law: Deloitte Legal provides clients with guidance on a broad range of issues arising from day-to-day operational activities. Our practitioners merge our local-jurisdiction experience with our know-how in global coordination. Deloitte Legal’s corporate law services are tailored to each client’s needs.

Among the most common ways we serve our clients are by supporting:
– Requests for legal advice regarding foreign investment matters
– The incorporation of corporations and companies in their various forms and characteristics
– Corporate record maintenance and legal bookkeeping
– The drafting and negotiation of NDAs, as well as confidentiality and settlement agreements
– The review, negotiation, and drafting of all types of commercial agreements
– The drafting of confidentiality, anti-corruption, and privacy corporate policies
– The drafting of board minutes, proxies, and general or special powers-of-attorney
– The negotiation and drafting of all kinds of negotiable instruments and credit transactions
– Corporate restructuring, conversions, dissolutions, and winding-up procedures
– Opening of subsidiaries, and representative and branch offices of foreign companies in any jurisdiction
– Corporate regularization
– Corporate compliance and risk assessment

•  Digital law: The Internet of Things, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, big data, the cloud and 3D printing – technologies are evolving rapidly and, as a result, organizations large and small, private and public, are fundamentally rethinking how they operate. Deloitte Legal tailors its digital law offering for each client; it combines its legal and regulatory capabilities with other Deloitte businesses such as consulting, audit, risk advisory, financial advisory and tax to create an integrated, holistic approach.

We focus on:
– Contract laws and private laws including cloud, outsourcing and smart contracts
– Mandatory laws and regulations—cyber, IT, e-commerce and related regulatory aspects around privacy and data protection, and e-commerce
– IP laws and trade secrets related to data, cyber, IT and e-commerce and cloud, eg copyright, patent and trademark laws, legal aspects of IP taxation (eg OECD BEPS and digital value chain alignment)

• Employment law and benefits: Because a wide range of workforce issues can impact a company’s ability to attract and retain talent, or can damage its reputation and market value in an instant, companies need trusted, globally scalable employment law solutions.

Deloitte Legal helps companies with:
– Global mobility: managing the growing complexity of an internationally mobile workforce
–  Individual employment law: from hiring, employment contracts, handbooks and policies, to termination
– Contingent workforce: from establishing the workforce strategy to drafting the appropriate context, clauses and policies
– Workforce transformation: from consultation to down-sizing or right-sizing procedures
– Compensation and benefits: from global stock plans to corporate governance and regulation, including CEO pay ratios, gender pay-gap reporting, and compliance with minimum wage requirements

• Mergers and acquisitions: Deloitte Legal advises businesses throughout every stage of a transaction, from negotiation through to execution. We align with our tax and finance colleagues to cover risks from all angles.

We provide support during the following critical phases:
– Sourcing
– Screening
– NDA
– First review
– LOI / NBO
– Due diligence
– Compliance due diligence
– Legal structuring
– Binding documentation, completion and closing
– Anti-trust filing/merger control clearance
– Post M&A integration
– Capital market compliance
– For clients seeking standalone services related to a transaction
Deloitte Legal can also help with:
– Joint ventures and strategic alliances
– Legal project management
– Post-merger integration

• Regulatory and compliance: The increasing complexity of the global regulatory environment challenges companies to find solutions for greater organization, specialization, and sectorial knowledge. Deloitte Legal combines global perspective with local insights to help them develop and execute those solutions.

Our regulatory and compliance services provide support to clients in areas such as:
– Business integrity and financial crime
– Antitrust, competition, and trade
– Sanctions
– Financial services regulation and investigations regulation
– Insurance
– Energy
– Public law

• Private clients legal services: Deloitte Legal brings together practitioners from across the Deloitte network to deliver insights and advice to private businesses and individuals around the world. Our private clients legal services teams help these clients address the unique challenges they face throughout the business lifecycle, unlocking potential for growth, innovation, expansion, corporate governance, and succession planning.

Our practitioners tailor the full scope of business law services for:
– Privately-owned and small cap businesses
– High-net-worth individuals
– Family-run businesses and their family offices
– Small, high-growth enterprises
– Private equity funds/houses and their portfolio companies

• Real estate: Deloitte Legal serves real estate clients in countries across the world with a broad range of services. Many of the Deloitte Legal practices serve the industry’s largest REITs and property companies, construction and engineering companies, and real estate investors.

Services include:
– Real estate transactions and due diligence
– Ownership restructuring
– Financing and syndication
– Lease and sublease agreements
– Registration services
– Development, building, and planning
– Litigation

• Banking and finance: Deloitte Legal practitioners serve clients with a variety of banking and securities legal solutions. Our banking and finance team has built an extensive track record advising on transactional banking. Working alongside financial advisors, tax, and accounting practitioners, our lawyers provide clients a unique holistic value.

Services focus on financing transactions, including new money financings in bilateral and syndicated loans, refinancing, and loan restructurings. Our lawyers also support clients across all areas of funding arrangements such as operating and finance agreements and intra-group funding.

• Commercial law: Deloitte Legal’s experienced practitioners bring a practical focus to commercial law solutions that help clients manage increasingly rigorous regulations and local enforcement. Our lawyers work as part of multi-disciplinary teams, with colleagues in disciplines such as tax, consulting, risk, financial advisory, and professionals focusing on key sectors and industries. This cross-functional approach helps Deloitte Legal offer clients a holistic perspective.

Services include:
– Commercial advisory
– Commercial contracts
– Full-scale pre-insolvency solutions
– Transfer pricing documentation, intra-group contracting

New law offerings
Legal Management Consulting (LMC): LMC is a collection of models, frameworks, and systems to help in-house lawyers run their departments more efficiently and comprehensively meet their business needs. It is an attempt to capture countless person-hours of management and consulting experience into a set of services and tools. LMC is a new approach and new discipline, developed for lawyers by lawyers and other specialists from mainstream management consultancy, risk advisory, tax management and legal.

Our study of the global legal market suggest that in-house functions are under pressures, both internal and external to demonstrate value, manage risk, contain costs, embrace new ways of working, introduce technology, operate globally and align with their organisations. LMC will help to transform your legal businesses.

Our services includes:

1. Legal operating model
The legal operating model specify how legal operations are organised to deliver legal services in their respective businesses. It includes strategic direction of the department, the governance of function, the tasks and services that are required, and the enablers or infrastructure that support these activities. Deloitte Legal helps organizations seeking to change their legal operating models, whether with a large-scale, end-to-end transformation or with a targeted assessment of a particular area. Depending on each client’s needs, we can map out and coordinate a full-scale legal operating model transformations or smaller, targeted changes to specific areas.

Our solutions can:
• Drive efficiency via process improvements and technology adoption
• Improve service delivery and reduce bottlenecks
• Modernize risk-management protocols
• Reduce legal spend
• Enable the legal team to focus on critical and strategic initiatives

2. Legal process
Legal process analysis is a discipline that emerged over the past few years. It is the process of analyzing and managing legal work in a process-oriented way. The legal process analysts specialises in scrutinizing and mapping how the legal work is done, look for bottlenecks and inefficiencies and overcome them by making changes or redesigning the legal processes. Deloitte Legal helps clients evaluate and, where appropriate, reconfigure their internal legal processes. Our legal process advisors help clients develop systematic, intuitive, and efficient processes. In recent years, organizations have been especially eager to refresh their processes in the following areas:
• Client contract management
• Supplier contract management
• Dawn-raid readiness
• Compliance protocols
• Corporate management
• Litigation management

3. Legal risk and matter management
Legal and compliance functions can benefit from a systematic approach to risk management. Deloitte legal delivers a current-state risk-management assessment, gap analysis, and a roadmap they can follow to close that gap. We help companies with best practices and industry standards to manage their legal risks in significant areas such as:
• Litigation/disputes
• Legislation changes
• Contract management
• Data privacy

4. Legal sourcing
Deloitte legal helps clients build a model that can accomplish more with less, by balancing in-house resources with technology and external services providers. Our sourcing teams have a deep knowledge of novel legal sourcing strategies such as working with panels of global or regional firms, working with alternative service providers, and leveraging technology. By applying these insights to our clients’ specific goals, Deloitte Legal helps organizations identify an efficient, effective alignment of tasks with appropriate resources, enabling a nimbler, more effective legal function with the ability to refocus on strategic priorities.

5. Legal technology
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the delivery of legal services. Proven and emerging digital tools have the capability to help teams provide consistency and transparency across borders, more than ever before. Technology can also help mitigate risk with greater efficiency and reliability, automate routine and repetitive tasks, and help free up the team for strategic priorities, achieving more with less. Deloitte Legal can help general counsels and their teams choose and implement the technology that works for them—tuned to their people and their goals.
• Understand what’s out there
• Understand what’s right for them
• Design and build a legal technology architecture that can deliver enterprise-wide value

6. Legal labs
A decade of accelerating economic, technological, and regulatory disruption has challenged legal leaders to see the invisible intersections connecting their business units and to make decisions that will create ripples throughout their organizations. Our legal management consulting teams lead labs to help clients achieve their full potential. They apply a tested set of principles that combine behavioral science, analytics, technology, and facilitation to break through the roadblocks that impede progress. Roadblocks such as groupthink, project entropy, change fatigue, scope-creep, and just about everything else that can stall growth.

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. Deloitte Legal uses its global scale, and consulting, technology, and alternative delivery experience so that our clients achieve a number of key objectives: efficient delivery of high-volume services, transparency and predictability of legal spending, and more efficient risk management, compliance and oversight.

Support is offered for:
– Contract lifecycle management
– Legal document review and management
– Any outsourced legal related service
– Legal Entity Management
– Legal project management
– Legal staffing
– Legal regulatory mapping