Counsel
A straight answer when you can’t ask your own people. Send us the contract, the plan or the judgement call. You get a recommendation from people who tried to take it apart first.
The work you can’t hand to your own people.
You may have no one to hand it to. Or a team you can’t use. Kethvar takes it from there.
Discretion
Work that leaves no internal footprint. Nothing goes through your team, your systems or your inbox until you decide it should.
Execution
The difficult thing, done. The conversation no one wants to have. The decision no one will own. We take it and we finish it.
What we are asked for
- Can’t go to HR
- Can’t go to the board yet
- Can’t wait until Monday
- Can’t come from you
- Can’t be asked internally
- Can’t go to the incumbent adviser
- Can’t wait for procurement
- Can’t be on email
- Same day
- Urgent work picked up
- By introduction
- The only route in
- None
- Internal footprint
In practice
Some of it is dull. Some of it needs a specialist. Some of it nobody else will touch.
A second opinion
The one your own team is too invested to give you straight.
The conversation
The one no one inside the business can have.
Off the system
Work that must leave no internal record until you say so.
Read before you commit
Contracts and plans, taken apart before you sign them.
The right specialist
Found, checked and briefed. We already know who to call.
Held and current
Records, filings and credentials kept ready for the day they matter.
Questions we are asked
How does an engagement start?
By introduction. We take on work when someone whose judgement we trust puts us in touch. We do not advertise and we do not solicit work.
Are you lawyers or accountants?
No. When a matter needs a regulated professional, we find one, check them and brief them. We already know who to call.
How is confidentiality handled?
Nothing routes through your team, your systems or your inbox until you decide it should. Where work must leave no internal trace, it doesn’t.
What kind of work do you take?
Anything you can’t hand to your own people. That runs from a second opinion your exec team is too invested to give, through to the administrative work nobody has picked up.
How quickly do you respond?
Urgent work is picked up the same day. Anything else is scoped and agreed with you before it starts.