Entity formation & restructuring
Holding structures, subsidiaries, and re-domiciliation done with tax foresight built in.
Practice area Corporate &
Corporate &
Commercial Law
The legal architecture a serious company is built on: clean formation, sound governance, durable contracts, and shareholder arrangements that hold when relationships are tested. We get the foundations right so the disputes never happen.
Most legal problems are structural.
They were set in motion years earlier.
The shareholder fight, the unenforceable contract, the governance gap exposed in due diligence — almost always trace back to a foundation laid in haste. We prefer to lay it well.
Foundations laid in haste
- A template shareholders’ agreement nobody read
- Contracts that do not survive a real dispute
- Governance that fails the first board scrutiny
- Founder terms that unravel at the first exit
Foundations laid by counsel
- Shareholder arrangements built for the hard cases
- Commercial contracts that hold under pressure
- Governance ready for investors and acquirers
- Founder terms aligned to the long horizon
What we handle
The corporate-law mandate, end to end.
From the first share certificate to the boardroom that scrutinises it.
Shareholder & founder arrangements
Vesting, drag-and-tag, reserved matters, and deadlock mechanics drafted for the hard cases.
Commercial contracts
Supply, distribution, licensing, and services agreements that survive real disputes.
Corporate governance
Board charters, delegation frameworks, and compliance ready for investor scrutiny.
Financing & investment
Term sheets, subscription agreements, and convertible instruments negotiated on your side of the table.
Dispute avoidance
Early, candid risk assessment — because the cheapest dispute is the one you never have.
How an engagement runs
Clear, sequenced, partner-led.
- 01
Position review
We map your existing structure, contracts, and governance, and tell you plainly where the real exposure sits — and where it does not.
- 02
Scoped remediation or build
You receive a written plan with priorities and a fee basis. We fix what is urgent first, then strengthen the foundation methodically.
- 03
Ongoing counsel
Most clients move to a light retainer so the lawyer who built the structure is the lawyer who steers it as the business grows.
Engagement models
How corporate counsel is scoped.
Illustrative bands. Every engagement is confirmed in writing before work begins.
Foundation Review
From $4,500 fixed
A one-time structural and contractual health check for an established company.
- Entity & governance review
- Shareholder-arrangement audit
- Key-contract risk assessment
- Written remediation roadmap
- Ongoing retained counsel
Retained Counsel
From $3,200 /month
A standing partner relationship for companies that need counsel on call, not on commission.
- Named partner as your lead
- Contract drafting & review
- Governance & board support
- Priority response times
- Coordinated tax & advisory bench
Transaction Mandate
Custom
For a specific financing, acquisition, or restructuring with a defined endpoint.
- Dedicated deal team
- Retainer plus success component
- Integrated tax structuring
- Cross-border coordination
- Post-completion support
Selected work
Representative outcomes.
Fictional, illustrative matters that reflect the shape of our corporate work.
Manufacturing Meridian Industrial Group
Restructured a 14-entity group ahead of a $300M financing.
We consolidated a tangle of legacy holding companies into a clean, tax-efficient structure, then negotiated the financing documents on the company’s side. The lenders’ diligence found nothing to renegotiate.
- $300M Financing closed
- 14 → 5 Entities rationalised
- 0 Diligence re-trades
Transport & logistics Northwind Logistics
Drafted founder terms that survived a contested exit.
When two of four founders parted ways, the vesting, drag, and deadlock provisions we had drafted three years earlier held without litigation. The company kept operating; the exit completed in weeks, not years.
- Avoided Litigation
- 6 weeks Exit timeline
- 2 of 2 Founders retained
In their words
What clients say when the deal is done.
A boutique earns its reputation one engagement at a time. These are fictional, illustrative voices.
They were the only advisers who told us what not to do. That restraint saved us a fight we would have lost. When we did move, the structure was airtight.
I have worked with three of the big firms. Apex & Crowne is the first where a partner read my term sheet personally and called me the same day. That is the whole difference.
For a family office, trust is the entire product. They have handled four generations of structuring decisions with discretion and a steadiness you cannot fake.
Questions on corporate counsel
What founders and boards usually ask.
Yes, and the transition is routine. We begin with a position review so we inherit your matters with full context, then agree what to keep, what to remediate, and on what basis we continue.
Both. We draft from scratch where you need a durable foundation, and we review and harden counterparties’ drafts where speed matters. In either case the goal is a document that holds in a real dispute.
Retained clients receive priority response, typically within the same business day for urgent items. The named partner is your direct contact, not a switchboard.
Get the foundations right before you need them.
A short conversation will tell us — and you — whether a foundation review or retained counsel is the right next step. It is free and confidential.
Tell us about your matter.
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