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Legal Services for your scale-up company
Legal aspects begin to play an increasingly important role as your business grows – both for small and medium-sized enterprises – and especially for scale-ups, where growth happens rapidly and complexity increases. Now it is not just about managing daily contracts, but you also need to ensure that everything from capital raises to partnerships and strategic decisions are legally sound and support your growth strategy.
It often requires an experienced legal perspective to maintain oversight, and this is where we come into the picture.
We specialise in helping CFOs with legal assistance in scale-up companies – from the first steps on the growth journey to the major leaps. As a CFO in a growth company, you face a broad range of tasks – especially when your organisation is in a development stage.
We can help you with a range of areas that ensure your scale-up company has the right legal frameworks in place. This way, you can focus on strategic business development and create growth:
- Commercial agreements
- Suppliers
- Development collaborations
- Investment agreements and shareholder relations
- Incentive programs
- Corporate governance
- Compliance
- Data protection/GDPR
- HR law
- Intellectual property rights (IPR)
- Regulatory compliance.
Legal department as a service – how do we deliver?
We understand that your needs vary in scope and complexity and span across many different legal fields. Therefore, we have put together a solution that provides access to advice from an entire legal department composed of precisely the competencies that your business and management need. The team behind coordinates efforts and ensures that the advice is delivered as your own internal legal function .
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In addition to legal advice from us in Legal Services, you can get support within the areas of CFO Services, Finance IT Services and People & Payroll Services. You can read much more about how we can help you across disciplines here.
Contracts should not stand in the way – they should help you achieve your goals
Contracts are the foundation for your agreements with customers, suppliers and partners – and therefore play a huge role when your business needs to grow.
But they can quickly become complex.
We would very much like to help you get a handle on the legal clauses and be your sparring partner. Our goal is to make the complicated manageable and create a solid legal foundation that is tailored to your business development, so you can focus on what matters most: growth.
You can read much more about how we can add great value to the growth journey through solid contract management here.
Broad area of responsibility ‒ invest without overinvesting
As a CFO in a scale-up, you will often be responsible for areas such as IT, legal, insurance and general risk management – even if these might be outside your core expertise. In a growing company, there are rarely established functions for legal advice or compliance, which means that the responsibility often falls to you.
Your ability to balance between doing "enough" without investing "too much" is crucial. It requires that you can prioritise and create efficient processes that both support strategic business development and ensure proper risk management – even when the organisation is developing at a rapid pace.
Compliance and risk management: The foundation for growth
As the number of compliance rules increases, it becomes your task to create an overview and ensure that the rules are handled in the correct order.
Many customers and other business partners not only have expectations but also requirements that their suppliers comply with and continuously document efforts in significant compliance areas such as data protection and anti-bribery. Many of these rules involve management responsibility, and it is therefore important that you can regularly report to the CEO and the board with a credible implementation plan.
As CFO, you are therefore the bridge builder between business and regulations – and your ability to see opportunities instead of limitations in legal and compliance can be crucial for the company's success. Effective risk management and regulatory compliance can not only minimize risks but also make the company more attractive to investors and customers.
The most important areas you should have under control
As a CFO in a scale-up, it is crucial to have control over the areas that ensure the company's growth and robustness. A central focus is contract management – clear processes and tools such as a CRM system can ensure quality in both negotiation and ongoing management of contracts, so the company always stands strong.
Data protection and GDPR is another key area. It is about compliance and the fact that you use data strategically to support growth. At the same time, it is important to have control over corporate governance, including documentation of board decisions and establishment of clear decision-making processes in the organisation.
By focusing on these areas, you as CFO can create a solid foundation that both minimises risks and strengthens the company's position with investors and customers.
We understand that each scale-up company has unique needs. Therefore, we offer flexible solutions that adapt to your company – whether it concerns a single project or an ongoing collaboration agreement. You are welcome to reach out for an informal chat.
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