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The BizHouseCounsel Team provides an economical solution for customized legal services for your business. The team approach enables the BizHouseCounsel attorneys to gain an “intimate” understanding of your business by interacting and partnering with your business management team, as if you always have in-house counsel “down the hall”.
Following is a selection of some of the BizHouseCounsel Team’s successes:
CONTRACTS
Business Challenge:
BizHouseCounsel Solution:
A BizHouseCounsel Team Member negotiated on behalf of the client and closed a major international distribution agreement with a prominent German company, giving it exclusive right to sell the client’s products in 25 countries in Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, with the assistance of the Team Member, the client entered into agreements with other foreign distributors resulting in client company distribution in 38 countries total. [Return to top]
FINANCING
Business Challenge:
BizHouseCounsel Solution:
A BizHouseCounsel Team Member partnered with the Chairman, President and CEO to refinance the client company in a turnaround situation in a tough financial market, in all phases of negotiations with existing lenders. The Team Member participated in the unwinding of existing financing, negotiated with potential lead banks and syndication participants for new financing, and participated in investor presentations with the client’s senior management and investment banker. [Return to top]
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
Business Challenge:
Client company needed to identify and resolve potential environmental and safety issues, in addition to the implementation of regulatory compliance oversight.
BizHouseCounsel Solution:
A BizHouseCounsel Team Member identified and effectively addressed numerous significant environmental and safety issues. The Team Member advised of a need for close management oversight of environmental stewardship and safety programs, which resulted in the implementation of dotted line reporting of regulatory department and environmental, health and safety department to legal function. [Return to top]
RISK MANAGEMENT & INSURANCE LITIGATION
Business Challenge:
A competitor brought a claim against a client company, a consumer products manufacturer, in an attempt to put the client company out of business.
BizHouseCounsel Solution:
A BizHouseCounsel Team Member employed his legal and risk management experience to successfully secure several million dollars in reimbursement from an insurer for the client company in major litigation that ensued. [Return to top]
STAFFING & REORGANIZATION STRATEGY FOR BUSINESS GROWTH
Business Challenge:
A client company, manufacturer, wanted to realign staff to position the company for competitive growth.
BizHouseCounsel Solution:
A BizHouseCounsel Team Member partnered with the client company’s management team and owners to develop a seamless, comprehensive reorganization and re-staffing plan for the corporate office. Positions were consolidated, personnel re-aligned, and new employees were hired as needed. Significant payroll savings were achieved. And, a harmonious team was assembled that drove company profitability. [Return to top]
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
Business Challenge:
A client company wanted to optimize its cost of purchased goods with significantly larger vendors, while maintaining legal/regulatory compliance.
BizHouseCounsel Solution:
A BizHouseCounsel Team Member partnered with the client company’s purchasing/logistics department to establish creative “strategic alliances” with the client company’s preferred vendors to optimize the cost of purchased goods, while maintaining legal/regulatory compliance for the client company and its vendors. [Return to top]
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