A division of Corpus Group
Corpus Legal
Legal and financial services
The group’s legal division. It structures, protects and passes on the client’s estate through contracts, company structures, trusts and tax, and defends it when a commercial relationship ends in dispute.
Services
Corporate and company law
Designing and maintaining the structure a company operates and is governed by.
What it decides The company form decides whose estate answers for the debts, how profit is taxed, and how quickly an investor can come in or a shareholder get out. Correcting it after a dispute costs more and is negotiated from a weak position.
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Finance and trusts
Vehicles and security that separate the asset from the risk of the operating business.
What it decides A ring-fenced estate separates the asset from the risk of the business and from the settlor’s own creditors. It is what allows a project to be financed without committing the rest of the estate, and what gives the counterparty security that can be enforced without going to court.
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Estate planning
Ordering how an estate is held, before an outside event orders it instead.
What it decides The cost of not planning is not paid today: it is paid in the succession, in an attachment or in a separation, when there is no longer room to choose the vehicle. Structuring beforehand turns a contingency with an uncertain outcome into a predictable procedure.
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Contracts
The contract as an instrument for allocating risk, not as a closing formality.
What it decides In practice a case is won or lost in the drafting. The governing law clause, the forum and the security regime determine where, in how long and at what cost a breach is recovered, long before any dispute exists.
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Commercial and civil dispute resolution
Claim and defence in contractual disputes, inside and outside the proceedings.
What it decides The instrument decides the timeline: an enforceable instrument is collected in months, while a declaratory claim is argued over years. And because court-annexed conciliation is a precondition to suing, the pre-action stage is not a preliminary formality but the first real chance to close the matter.
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