Ways to Work With Us
Ongoing corporate and commercial counsel on a flat monthly retainer.
Growing businesses often reach a point where legal issues become too important, or too frequent, to handle on an ad hoc basis, but do not yet justify a full-time in-house legal department.
Let’s TalkSouth Hill Law fills that gap, providing ongoing corporate and commercial counsel on a flexible fixed-fee retainer and working alongside business owners, management teams and investment professionals as an extension of their team.
More than a retainer. The value of ongoing counsel is not simply having a lawyer on call. Over time, we come to understand your business, your objectives, your relationships and your appetite for risk, context that lets us give faster, more commercially relevant advice.
Practical counsel on the corporate and commercial questions that arise in the ordinary course of business.
Reviewing, drafting and negotiating agreements with customers, suppliers, service providers and strategic partners.
Governance, shareholder questions, corporate records, reorganizations and other ongoing corporate needs.
Support on financing arrangements, investments and the smaller transactions that arise between major deals.
Corporate-side counsel on employment and management arrangements, including executive agreements, confidentiality and restrictive covenants.
A sounding board for business decisions where legal, commercial and risk considerations intersect.
South Hill Law can serve as an ongoing corporate and commercial resource for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, providing continuity between larger transactions, whether a portfolio company needs help with a commercial agreement, a governance question, a financing, a shareholder matter or an emerging deal.
Our fixed-fee retainer gives you predictable access to experienced legal counsel without the cost and commitment of building a traditional in-house legal function.
These are among the questions business owners and investors raise most often about ongoing counsel.
External general counsel is an arrangement in which a firm serves as a company’s ongoing legal resource without the cost of a full-time in-house department. It provides continuity and familiarity, so advice reflects a genuine understanding of the business.
We work on a flat monthly retainer scoped to the company’s needs, so legal support is predictable in both availability and cost. The scope can be adjusted as the business grows or its needs change.
It typically covers day-to-day corporate and commercial questions, contract review, governance and the smaller matters that arise between larger transactions. Significant transactions are usually scoped separately, so the retainer stays focused and fair.
You gain experienced corporate and commercial counsel without the salary, benefits and overhead of an employee. It suits businesses that need regular support but do not yet require a full-time legal department.
No. It suits any business where legal questions arise often enough to warrant ongoing support, from owner-managed companies to investment-backed portfolio companies.