Corporate Legal Services and Legal Crises - David Mandell at MandellCorporate - MandellCorporate operates as’ ’In- House General Counsel’ to arrange, manage and deliver corporate led legal services

Solicitors | In House Counsel

MandellCorporate is a specialist law firm representing clients as ‘In House General Counsel’ for Corporate Legal Services. MandellCorporate is among the first of a new generation of UK law firms that focus on bringing an In House approach to their clients.

Where Private Practice Goes In House

We look at the law through your eyes

Our General Counsel approach makes it possible for your company to enjoy all the advantages you could want of having an experienced In-house Counsel to hand working alongside your management team.

Smart Law for Business

We like to bring smart and creative thinking to the boardroom. We understand the demands and dynamics of large corporations and complex transactions, domestic and multinational. We believe we are good at applying this experience to fast-growth and mid-sized companies.

Tip of the iceberg

We do not try and do it all ourselves .We make it our job to know the right expert in any discipline at a range of top law firms who we can involve in the team and who will report to us. We do not compete with large law firms, nor do we try. We like to work with them. When it comes to choosing individual lawyers and firms to use, we do so with a keen “client- side” eye. We like to think that gives us a perspective and focus that not many private practice law firms can rival. We have a relationship protocol we have created with the firms we work with to keep our client relationship as number 1.

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We hand select leading lawyers ( and rising stars ) who are with major law firms around the country.We choose people who command their specialist area. They and their firms like to work with us and our clients to our relationship protocol. Our clients like the overall experience of how we bring legal teams together and how we try to take the inherent tension out of the law firm and client relationship dynamic. We focus on assembling the right expertise, at the right level of seniority without carrying burdensome overheads to justify in our pricing.

We could not do this without grey hair

As it’s Founder, I have over 20 years experience as a senior corporate partner in City Law firms. I am seasoned at the sometimes challenging art of balancing the needs of my clients with the law firm. I have my own “take” on how to get the most out of client relationships. MandellCorporate was founded in 2009 with that in mind.

Stop all the clocks?

We like to manage our clients’ legal spend efficiently, responsibly and without compromising expertise or risk management. That is part of what clients tell us they want. In fact, one of our goals is to curb legal spend escalating without accountability and to keep wasted effort to a minimum. That is part of what we want to bring to the relationship (and your P&L).

At all times we manage the team and we report to you.

Crisis ? What Crisis?

We come into our own in a crisis The first 24 hours of any crisis demands a cool head with the experience of knowing what to do, what expertise is required in any given situation and where to find it. We are unfettered in helping you make that choice. We pride ourselves on managing the inevitable distress nature of some assignments . We can steer our clients through the impulse of panic hiring at a critical early stage. Would you know what to do in a dawn raid by HMRC on your company? Or the police on a major customer of yours ? Our way, we can get the right advisers for you on Board from the outset. ( and by the way, we would expect to save our clients thousands of pounds in the process by being targeted in our thinking and knowing how to assemble a crisis legal team quickly).

Briefly

It is in our nature to succinctly brief lawyers so they can cut to the chase on any issue more quickly and we manage out what can sometimes come across to clients as “over-lawyering” a matter.

International black book

We maintain a private network of proven contacts around the globe with major law firms and independents when an international dimension exists.. We can pick up the phone to corporate lawyers from Jersey to Japan, Grand Cayman to Grand Central, Mauritius to Massachusetts. We would expect to find the right lawyer and firm for you. This is another aspect that sets us apart from other “In House” Counsel services that you may hear about.

Our blueprint, put simply,

To advise and advise well

MandellCorporate is a law firm regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales under number 523027. The rules of the Solicitors' Regulation Authority can be accessed at http://www.sra.org.uk at the 'code of conduct' page.

David Mandell is a solicitor and the sole Principal and Founder of the firm. The registered office of the firm is at The Boathouse, Crabtree Lane, London SW6 6TY. Nothing in this communication or any other communication from MandellCorporate will create or imply a contractual, solicitor/client or privileged legal relationship unless a prior letter of engagement is entered into with MandelCorporate.