I am the de-facto General Counsel of my own company and it is the worst-paid job I have.
For the founder personally as well as the business: what you own, what you have signed, what you are exposed to, and who handles the next thing that lands.
Dinmore Bell acts as a retained General Counsel for founders personally as well as for the business: what is owned, what has been signed, and where the exposure sits. Personal tax, immigration and regulated wealth advice are provided by instructed specialists under its coordination.
How we own it
Personal exposure
Guarantees, directorships, loan accounts and covenants — found, listed and, where possible, removed.
What you own
Shares, options, IP and interests documented properly, so a future transaction does not become an archaeology project.
Someone to call
The awkward negotiation, the shareholder conversation, the regulator letter. Made by us, with the objective agreed first.
Where specialists come in
Personal tax, immigration and regulated wealth advice are provided by instructed specialists under our coordination.
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The comparison is not our fee against an hourly rate. It is our fee against the hire you would otherwise make.
Free zone or mainland: the question founders ask last
The decision is usually made by whoever incorporated first, then lived with for years.
- What does a founder actually get from a retained legal function?
- The legal and commercial load off their desk, and decisions returned closed rather than as options. In practice that means contracts owned, disputes run, structure maintained, and one person accountable for all of it.
- Does this cover personal matters as well as the business?
- The interface between the two, yes. Personal tax, immigration and regulated wealth advice are provided by instructed specialists under our coordination rather than by us.
- What if we only need help occasionally?
- Then a retainer is probably the wrong product and we will say so. The function earns its cost where legal work is continuous; where it is genuinely occasional, a scoped piece of work is the honest answer.