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General Counsel Services

Providing expert advice and support to General Counsels.

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Specialist general counsel support

Particularly in challenging times, we recognise GCs have to balance dealing with a wide range of proactive and reactive legal issues and risk management on behalf of your organisation, whilst also dealing with the operational side of the role such as running a team, supplier management, systems, processes and technology.

General Counsels are tackling unprecedented conversations and situations around business continuity, financial commitments, supply chain matters as well as HR related queries from colleagues and managers. It’s a role with a huge amount of pressure and responsibility, which can sometimes make it a lonely one, that’s where our expert lawyers can support.

General Counsel Forum

As well as our General Counsel services legal offering, we also run a General Counsel Forum in collaboration with a leading in-house GC who chairs the group.

This forum is made up of members from leading businesses across the South West, South Coast and Wales and meets three times a year to discuss pertinent issues and topics. Recent sessions have covered reputation management, legal operations and mental health at work.

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Our services

We can provide solutions for your senior leadership teams. Our General Counsel lawyers can assist with:

  • Pragmatic business continuity advice for business owners that face demands and uncertainty whilst trying to fulfil their directors’ duties and responsibilities.
  • Rapid, virtual access to executive-level coaches and mentors, management advisory and skills coaching webinars. With many years’ experience of PSFs and broader commercial environments, we provide 1-2-1 support to help you resolve issues in a confidential and clear-headed way.
  • Our experts can act as a sounding board or triage service so you can bounce ideas around in confidence.
  • Through webinars and roundtables, we bring specialist lawyers together with key decision makers across businesses to identify solutions for challenges and concerns.

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Whether or not your company has an in-house legal function, running a business today presents many complex challenges.

We think it’s important that we genuinely get to know our clients businesses – that’s how we can deliver value that goes beyond just the monetary.

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Employment

Having the right people in the right place, displaying the right behaviours through the right processes can be just as hard as it sounds.

Our experienced team of experts are able to provide you with timely, commercial advice for day-to-day advice to project support.

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Intellectual Property

Every business, from start-ups through to international business giants, has intellectual property rights.

At Foot Anstey our expert lawyers have a holistic approach to helping you manage your intellectual property

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Reputation Management

Your brand and reputation is one of your most important assets and needs to be protected.

Our expert team can provide you with the best possible response to any reputation management scenario you face.

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Risk Advisory & Regulatory

Risks can impact the delivery of your strategy, but can also provide market opportunities and competitive advantage.

Our experts help you look at your risk management holistically to drive operational consistency and prevent risk.

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Why choose Foot Anstey?

Foot Anstey’s General Counsel services model takes a unique approach to working with you and helping you to address these challenges. Our team have first hand experience of the ever-changing nature of the in-house legal world so we have some appreciation of what challenges you are currently facing.

As part of our General Counsel services offering we deliver a broad range of commercial legal services in a bespoke and flexible model that works for you, ensuring we provide cost certainty throughout. Whatever the approach we take, we’ll always provide you with clear legal advice delivered in a manner that suits your audiences so it can be delivered immediately to the end user. We’ll also provide regular reporting and highlight common issues or efficiencies so that your legal function can continue to add value to your business as it navigates its way through this period of uncertainty.

Our people

At Foot Anstey, our team have first-hand in-house experience whether as former General Counsels or having held long term in-house secondments or acting as an external General Counsel on behalf of our clients.

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What do our clients say?

“Innovative approach to providing the equivalent of in house general counsel service through outsourced arrangement. Have been flexible and proactive in adapting team over time to provide appropriate service.”

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