Outside General Counsel

The firm provides outside general counsel services to medium and small companies based on Michael’s more than 20 years of experience in advising clients regarding corporate governance matters and in corporate secretarial roles.

Services Include:

• Contract review and negotiation
• Litigation management and internal investigations
• Managing outside legal spending, including drafting RFPs for legal services and negotiating alternative fee arrangements
• Providing legal responses to auditors
• Risk management and insurance procurement
• Preparing for and conducting board of directors’ meetings
• Corporate compliance and drafting and maintaining corporate policies
• Maintaining business entities in good standing
• Advertising review

Representative Matters:

• Drafted and successfully managed RFPs for large legal engagements, including mergers & acquisitions, material litigation matters, and large-scale technology agreements.
• Regularly interacted with external auditors and internal audit unit.
• Supervised and collaborated with outside counsel in high profile commercial litigation.
• Managed relationships with insurers in connection with commercial litigation.
• Planned and participated in quarterly board meetings for many entities for more than 15 years and maintained corporations in good standing.
• Adapted European Union Solvency II and other global policies to U.S. law.