Start 2026 Protected, Compliant, and Growth-Ready
Dear Founder/CEO
As your business scales, your legal infrastructure must keep pace.
Staying legally organized must come with growth. It is not optional. Contracts, governance, regulatory compliance and investor readiness, staying legally organized is not optional. It directly impacts your cash flow, operational efficiency, and your ability to attract investment.
Our Retainer is how we provide you with essential, proactive, and ongoing legal support throughout the year, ensuring your business remains protected and structured and protecting you from fines and trouble, while you focus solely on growth.
Why is Proactive Compliance Your Best Investment?
The truth is that while legal issues can be nightmares, they are not sudden disasters. Rather, they are slow, quiet leaks. They are mostly caused by a combination of ignorance and a lack of sufficient time. Slowly you start to pile up overlooked compliance obligations, outdated contracts, missed filings, and weak governance. All these will eventually create significant liability, costing you:
- Financial Penalties: Severe regulatory fines.
- Operational Disruption: Halt of services or projects.
- Missed Opportunities: Lost deals or delayed investor funding.
- Legal Exposure: Lawsuits and irreparable reputational damage.
A legal retainer acts as your continuous risk prevention system, keeping your business legally aligned and airtight month after month.
What Do You Benefit? Comprehensive Legal Coverage
Our retainer is structured to cover the six critical pillars of corporate compliance and legal hygiene:
1. Periodic Legal Health Audits to ensure no critical risk area is overlooked or allowed to slip.
A structured, deep-dive review of your current contracts, licensing, HR documentation, regulatory obligations, and governance status.
2. Priority Contract Management (Drafting, Review & Negotiation) to rigorously protect your interests and avoid unfavourable terms.
Front-of-the-queue access for reviewing, drafting, and negotiating your most vital agreements:
- Client and Vendor Agreements
- Partnership and Affiliate Contracts
- Employment Contracts and NDAs
3. Regulatory & Licensing Compliance so you can confidently stay ahead of regulatory deadlines, instead of always reacting to them.
Proactive guidance on all statutory and sector-specific obligations relevant to your industry:
- CAC Filings and Statutory Compliance
- Sector-Specific Licensing (e.g., Hospitality Renewals)
- Data Protection (NDPR) & Advertising Compliance (FMCG)
4. Ongoing Advisory & Strategic Risk Prevention by having a lawyer a phone call or email away for fast, clear legal direction before problems materialize or escalate.
Access to day-to-day legal guidance on critical operational and strategic decisions:
- Dispute resolution and internal challenges
- Expansion planning and new projects
- Corporate structure queries
- Investor discussions and due diligence preparation
5. Corporate Governance Support, showing you the customised structure your own business needs for credibility and investor confidence.
Maintaining the formal legal structure required for credibility and investor confidence, including:
- Drafting of Resolutions and Minutes
- Board meeting advisory and documentation
- Share register updates and maintenance
- Corporate structure clean-up
6. Guaranteed Priority Access (VIP Treatment)
Retainer clients always receive front-of-the-queue support for all urgent matters and time-sensitive documentation reviews, ensuring immediate response when you need it most.
Do I need this?
This solution is designed for business owners, CEOs, and founders who value structure, clarity, and controlled growth:
- Growing SMEs: Seeking to formalize their operations and mitigate increasing risk.
- Tech Startups: Preparing for fundraising and needing a clean, investment-ready structure.
- Established Businesses: Requiring structured, ongoing support to manage complex compliance.
- FMCG & Hospitality: Navigating complex licensing, permits, and advertising controls.
- Service-Based Firms: Scaling operations and needing robust client/vendor contract management.
Remember the law applies to every citizen and every business, and ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Our Simple 4-Step Onboarding Process
| Step | Action | Benefit to You |
| 1. Consultation & Assessment | We review your business model, current obligations, contracts, and regulatory environment. | Define your exact legal risks and needs. |
| 2. Tailored Compliance Plan | You receive a clear, actionable roadmap for legal and compliance structure for the year. | Gain immediate clarity on your path forward. |
| 3. Proactive Support Commences | We begin dedicated, continuous legal support under the retainer agreement. | Start the year with legal protection secured. |
| 4. Priority Access All Year | You enjoy continuous guidance and immediate support whenever an issue arises. | Operate with consistent peace of mind. |
Investment & Next Steps
Investment is based on the size of your organization and the scope of required support.
If your year-end review revealed gaps in two or more areas (contracts, compliance, filings, governance, or licensing), you definitely need structured support.
Start 2026 the Right Way. With our Compliance Advisory Retainer, you will operate with:
- Clarity
- Legal Protection
- Peace of Mind
- Confidence to Scale
Ready to Secure Your Growth?
Request Your Tailored Retainer Proposal Today.
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