How Legal and Financial Services Add Value: Some Key Areas to Consider
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The Attorneys, consultants and advisors at Borderless Counsel work with clients of all sizes and at different stages of development. In particular, we work with our clients to negotiate, structure, and complete international transactions which improve the competitive position of our clients. We look to add value to our client’s business models, and help them to attain sustainable growth. By conducting audits of their contractual risk management processes and investment/expenditure practices, we help clients cut their risks, losses and costs. In addition, through our contract structuring, we also help clients to monetize their businesses more efficiently, and to utilize their value proposition more effectively, thereby increasing their profits and revenues.
Our legal and financial services involve the provision of pragmatic advice to businesses on the best legal and compliance framework for operations, investments, regulatory compliance, and special initiatives. This week, we explore how our services add practical value to the functioning of our client’s businesses.
Key Services to Consider
Immigration Law: There are different rules established by the Governments of various countries regarding entrance requirements and duration of stay, as well as the naturalization process for those who desire to become citizens of a particular country. At Borderless Counsel, we specialize in North American immigration laws in particular, and can also assist clients who are looking to migrate to or visit Europe, the GCC, East Asia, Turkey, Australia, and New Zealand as well. For businesses working in the international market, moving executives and business people between borders can be a vital need. Therefore, we help small businesses and professionals to navigate the global web of immigration and resettlement with reliable, researched, and thorough strategies.
Business Law, Contracts and Compliance: From contract review, to company formation and legal compliance, we at Borderless Counsel offer extensive guidance. This can include a full compliance audit, to see where a businesses’ legal terms, contracts and processes leave crucial risk areas unaccounted for. We can also help businesses improve their contractual terms with clients and partners, through negotiation and contract strategies, which help drive greater profitability.
Intellectual Property Law: At Borderless Counsel, our Attorneys are specialists in intellectual property law, especially relative to e-commerce business. We specialize in protecting Intellectual Property, creative works, ideas, and trade secrets. This is particularly important for e-commerce business, due to the ease with which copycats and idea thieves can duplicate and steal your ideas online.
Cyber Security Compliance: In the digital world, hackers and bad actors have a great deal of bandwidth to play around with the vital information of businesses. It is easier than many people realize to penetrate the key systems and IT infrastructure of a business. Our cyber security team specializes in designing systems to keep business IT systems secure and operational in the wake of ever-increasing digital threats.
TAX AND FINANCIAL CONSULTING: Through a synthesized team of lawyers and financial consultants, we assist clients with their financial planning. For international businesses, we help clients utilize tax treaties and business friendly tax tools to limit tax liabilities and risks. We also assist clients with financial planning and asset valuations, which are relevant to tax matters and general business planning.
Financial Valuations: At Borderless Counsel, we can provide financial valuations for Clients to analyze company liquidity and solvency. Liquidity is a firm’s ability to generate sufficient assets to pay its current liabilities as needed. Solvency, on the other hand, has a long-term focus. A Company’s solvency refers to the ability to generate revenue over the long term to purchase assets and to pay debt. We compare the financial results over a period of years to identify trends. (If, for example, Accounts Receivable is growing at a faster percentage rate than sales, this trend may be an indication that the business will run out of cash).
Another important reason to perform a valuation on a client would be before entering into a merger or acquisition transaction; we want to see if this union would create synergy.
Management Consulting: At Borderless Counsel we can provide a range of services such as, management consulting, which entails helping organizations of various sizes improve their overall performance and lead them to eventually reach their business objectives in a cost-effective manner. At Borderless Counsel, we provide a structured approach to organizational change, the development of coaching skills, process analysis, technology implementation, and operational improvement.
Book-keeping and Accounting: At Borderless Counsel, we can provide a range of book-keeping and accounting services:
Book-keeping: The process of recording a client’s financial transactions in respective subsidiary journals, and from there, to the general ledger up to the trial balance stage.
Accounting: The process whereby a client’s financials are prepared, summarized, analyzed, consulted, and reported on. We at Borderless Counsel ensure that the Client’s Financial Statements follow the highest accounting standards (in accordance with IAS, IFRS, and GAAP).
Our Team: Some Key Members
(Learn more about some of our other key team members at the “Our Team” page (click here)).
Zakir Mir (Attorney and Legal Consultant) specializes in Business Law, Immigration and Intellectual Property Protection rights for his clients. Zakir also heads the compliance division for Infinigence Consulting Services, which is the partner company of Borderless Company in Bahrain, and handles the consulting for Start-ups and SMEs in the MENA region.
Ariel Humphrey is a Partner Consultant at Borderless Counsel. He has over 15 years of experience in providing comprehensive and tailored Tech Law Assistance for growing Start-ups. He is also Managing Director of Tech Law Premium Solutions, which facilitates Contract, Corporate, Tax, Trade, IT & IP Law Services to Tech, IT, Software, CyberSec, Data, E-Commerce & FinTech Startups, SMEs & Corporations.
Andrea Catasti is the co-founder of Tech Law Premium Solutions, and the founder of AC Legal, a specialist legal and tax consulting firm based in Paris. He is an expert in legal and tax consultancy for Borderless Counsel. He is an International Tax and Business Lawyer in Paris who assists both Commercial and Private Clients in structuring and optimizing the legal and tax security of their Domestic and Cross-Border Operations. Andrea assists clients with Corporate Tax, International tax optimization, VAT, and Employment and Company Managers Tax. Andrea Catasti also assists clients with drafting and reviewing Business Contracts, and structuring Corporate Governance Operations.
Farrukh Bashir, IT Consultant and Cyber Security Expert
Farrukh is the head of IT services at Infinigence Consulting (a partner company of Borderless Counsel and is based in Bahrain). Farrukh works extensively with start-ups as well as major businesses. We can provide his IT services as a value addition to our clients along with legal and financial services. In particular, Farrukh is an expert in cyber security compliance, and he can help clients keep their data and IT infrastructure safe from viruses, hackers and external threats.
Saad Ahmad, Financial Valuations Expert and Management Consultant
Saad provides a wide range of finance and related services required to assist clients in major transactions and international transactions. Saad provides a wide range of general management consulting services to startups, business owners, and SMEs seeking to achieve their business objectives in a cost-effective way. He has helped many clients to remain ahead of critical market shifts and trends by supporting their strategy development, go-to-market strategies, cost-management initiatives, business planning cycles, and digital transformations.
Nikhil Thadani, Finance & Accounting Consultant
Nikhil provides a wide range of services required to assist clients in major international transactions: With respect to Book-keeping and Accounting, Nikhil assists in the recording of a client’s routine financial transactions in an organized set of subsidiary books of account daily. With respect to financial valuations, Nikhil assists in the process of valuation of client’s own business, or that of a target company, by using Discounted Cash flows methods, Comparable Company Analysis, Precedent transaction analysis, etc. Lastly, Nikhil and our other tax experts can assist in a wide range of taxation related matters, including on taxes for foreign business owners, VAT/GST, income tax, capital gains related matters.
In conclusion, we at Borderless Counsel can provide a variety of quality legal and financial services that can assist our clients to meet their corporate goals and objectives.