Multi-tranche equity
Capital released in stages against defined conditions rather than a calendar. Useful when the value of the business depends on something outside its control — a licence, an approval, a piece of legislation.
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What the practice
actually covers.
Six areas, and they overlap constantly. A single financing can touch the licence, the articles, the security package and the shareholders' agreement in the same week — which is the argument for keeping them on one desk.
Capital
Financings &
debt structuring
Raising money is rarely the hard part. Structuring it so the money arrives when the business can actually use it — and so the lender, the investor and the founder are still on speaking terms two years later — is the hard part.
Commercial lending facilities
Operating lines of credit and term facilities: negotiating the covenants, the drawdown mechanics, the reporting obligations and the events of default that a borrower can realistically live with.
Bridge and secured facilities
First-ranking secured bridge loans, equity pledges, guarantees and inter-creditor arrangements — drafted to survive the permanent financing that comes after them.
Equity
Acquisitions &
share transactions
Buying or selling a position in a private company is mostly an exercise in describing the future accurately: what gets paid, when, on what condition, and what happens if the condition never arrives.
Share purchase agreements
Offers, negotiation and documentation for equity transitions — including transfers involving governments, tribal enterprises, funds and international investment groups, where the counterparties operate under different legal traditions.
Royalty & deferred consideration
Structures where part of the price is paid out of what the business earns later: branded product royalties, deferred annual consideration, earn-outs, and the reporting rights that make them enforceable.
Minority-interest protection
Drag and tag rights, reserved matters, information rights, anti-dilution and board representation — the provisions that decide whether a minority holder has a position or merely a certificate.
Regulation
Regulatory &
legislative strategy
In newly regulated sectors the framework often doesn't exist yet. Someone has to work with government to write it — and then build a business that can operate inside it lawfully and profitably.
Ordinance & framework work
Managing the regulatory and legislative process end to end, aligning a government's stated policy objectives with a commercially viable set of rights and obligations.
Licensing & approvals
Applications, conditions, renewals and the ongoing obligations attached to them, in sectors where a licence is the business rather than a formality attached to it.
Compliance architecture
The internal framework that keeps a regulated operator compliant after the licence is issued: policies, reporting lines, record-keeping and the governance that regulators actually inspect.
Structure
Corporate formation
& governance
Unglamorous and decisive. A badly assembled cap table or a set of articles drafted for a company that no longer exists will surface at exactly the wrong moment — usually in the middle of due diligence.
Formation across jurisdictions
Incorporation and the full legal and financial setup of an operating company, including holding structures and multi-jurisdictional transaction models.
Restructuring & articles
Amendments to statutory articles of incorporation, share class reorganisation, board and shareholder architecture, and the notary process where local law requires one.
UBO, AML & source of funds
Ultimate-beneficial-owner disclosure and source-of-funds verification — increasingly the step that determines whether a cross-border transaction closes on time or at all.
Technology
Technology &
intellectual property
For a software or e-commerce business the IP position is the balance sheet. It has to be owned cleanly, registered where it counts, and licensed in a way that doesn't quietly give it away.
Acquisition & registration
Securing ownership of core IP and custom software tools, assignment from developers and contractors, and registration in the jurisdictions where enforcement will matter.
Global licensing
Licence structures across territories — scope, exclusivity, field of use, sublicensing, royalty mechanics and termination that returns the asset intact.
Commercial & platform terms
Software, e-commerce and reseller agreements, terms of service, data and processing terms — the paperwork a platform business runs on every day.
Sovereign
First Nations, tribal
& sovereign matters
Commercial work involving Indigenous and tribal governments carries a second set of considerations alongside the corporate ones: sovereignty, community accountability, and the fact that these are governments as well as commercial parties.
Joint ventures
Structuring ventures between tribal or First Nations enterprises and outside partners, with governance that reflects who actually holds authority and how decisions are properly made.
Interest protection
Minority-interest protections and corporate safeguards drafted so that a community's position cannot be diluted, bypassed or quietly restructured by a majority partner.
Counsel to leadership
Strategic advice to tribal and First Nations leadership on corporate law questions — and, on the other side, to investors and operators who want to do this properly rather than quickly.
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