How We Work
Our team’s background in providing commercial contract advice for top South African and UK corporations and banks makes us experts in understanding clients' needs, becoming trusted advisors and getting the right deal outcomes.
People of Excellence
We appreciate that understanding our clients' needs is core to us remaining trusted advisors and helping our clients get the right deal outcomes. To do this, we make sure we appoint a team of lawyers that are the right fit for your organisation and understand your business. This means you will always have a commercially aware counsel available to you - one who knows your business and ways of working and who will operate as an extension of your own team.
Understanding You
We don’t try to fit your organisation into our services. We build our service around learning about your business and understanding your objectives. This ensures that any legal advice or support we provide is useful, protects against legal risk and ultimately supports the growth of your business. It also means that we can ensure ways of working with you that are going to be optimal and efficient. We believe that creating strong relationships is key and we work consciously to become part of your team as best we can.
Our Expertise
We give expert advice to top South African and UK corporations, on the best way to structure, negotiate and manage commercial contracts.
Practical Advice
We see our role as providing practical advice and solutions that work in the real business world. To this end, our legal support is always grounded in the realities of your commercial needs.
Price Certainty
We understand the primary importance of cost transparency and price certainty. The price we agree for each engagement is fixed - whether a once off project or an ongoing service - which means that you can better manage business and legal budgets and don’t have to worry about a surprise invoice.
Process
We’re able to assist our clients to streamline often convoluted engagements and interactions between the business and its legal function. For this, we draw on knowledge developed over many years to create processes that enable more efficient collaboration between business and legal (be it in-house or external) that relate to structuring, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts across a wide range of industry sectors.
We’re Lighthouse Law
We build our service around learning about your business and understanding your objectives.
Technology
We are people-centred, but use technology to make us quicker, more accurate and more efficient for our clients. We are constantly considering and testing innovative ways to use technology to enable you to get the most value out of our service and your contracts.
Data and Reporting
We keep you up to date on every matter we are engaged on, using metrics that actually matter to you and agreed ways of communicating that mean you have the assurance that your matters are being taken care of. This has given our clients the ability to understand their contracting landscape and make informed decisions.
