Diligent is the leading provider of secure corporate governance and collaboration solutions for boards and senior executives. Over 5,000 customers in more than 75 countries and on all seven continents rely on Diligent to provide secure, intuitive access to their most time-sensitive and confidential information, ultimately helping them make better decisions. The Diligent Boards solution speeds and simplifies how board materials are produced, delivered and collaborated on via any device, removing the security concerns of doing this by courier, email and file sharing. Additional modular compliance solutions in the Diligent family include secure messaging, meeting minutes, questionnaires, evaluations and entity management (Blueprint OneWorld).
Blueprint OneWorld is a global web-based entity management and corporate governance solution, allowing you to access and manage your corporate compliance data 24/7, anytime, anywhere. With more than 25 years of experience, thousands of users worldwide, across every conceivable industry, our client base features many of the largest companies in the world. Our commitment to providing highly secure and integrated solutions is the reason why many FTSE 100, FORTUNE 500, EURONEXT 100, ASX 50 trust us to manage their corporate information to deliver good governance.
Visit www.diligent.com and www.blueprintoneworld.com or follow us on twitter @diligentHQ to learn more.
Kroll is the leading global provider of risk solutions. For more than 40 years, Kroll has helped clients make confident risk management decisions about people, assets, operations and security through a wide range of investigations, cyber security, due diligence and compliance, physical and operational security and data and information management services. Headquartered in New York with more than 35 offices in 20 countries, Kroll has a multidisciplinary team of nearly 1,000 employees and serves a global clientele of law firms, financial institutions, corporations, non-profit institutions, government agencies and individuals. For more information visit www.kroll.com
Luminance is the market-leading artificial intelligence platform for the legal industry and has customers in 16 countries including Slaughter and May (UK), Gilbert + Tobin (Australia), WongPartnership (Singapore) and Chapman Tripp (New Zealand). Created using the latest advances in machine learning technologies from the University of Cambridge, Luminance aids law firms in increasing the efficiency of contract review. Using a unique blend of supervised and unsupervised learning, it sorts and filters any data room while highlighting any issues. Luminance requires no prior set-up and is designed to start adding value from day one. Luminance is transforming due diligence in leading law firms globally, from Singapore to New York. The company was recently recognised for Horizontal Innovation by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) in London, and also won ‘Best AI Product in Legal’ at the inaugural CogX AI Innovation Awards.
Luminance is the market-leading artificial intelligence platform for the legal industry and has customers in 16 countries worldwide from Australia to New York. Created using the latest advances in machine learning technologies from the University of Cambridge, Luminance aids law firms in increasing the efficiency of contract review. Using a unique blend of supervised and unsupervised learning, it sorts and filters any data room while highlighting any issues. Luminance requires no prior set-up and is designed to start adding value from day one.
BDO is an international network of public accounting, tax and advisory firms which perform professional services under the name of BDO. With a fee income of $8.1 billion in 2017, the firm has representation across 162 countries with over 73,000 people working out of over 1,500 offices worldwide.
The Forensic Services team at BDO is one of the most successful, experienced and innovative investigations and disputes advisory practices worldwide, commensurate with BDO being one of the largest global accountancy firms. It provides expertise and advice to a wide range of clients, from companies to professional services firms, regulators to governments and charities. Specialists from the BDO Forensic Services team have worked on some of the largest and highest profile matters around the world. It has a reputation for delivering exceptional client service. The UK team of 9 partners and over 100 staff boasts leading experts and investigators who provide clients with specialist assistance in litigation and arbitration matters, financial investigations, contentious insolvency and forensic technology.
Edelman is the world’s leading communications marketing firm, helping businesses and individuals promote and protect their brands and reputations.
Legal issues are often defined by a co-ordinated legal and communications response. Clients are increasingly concerned about their reputation in times of legal stress. They demand that their advisors work together to ensure that their legal, reputation and business interests are protected.
Our Litigation and Legal affairs team provides expert, senior communications advice and support to clients facing complex, high-profile litigation, disputes or non-litigious issues. It has over 20-years combined legal practice experience.
Apperio brings transparency to the legal function for the first time. Apperio’s secure, cloud-based analytics solution gives both corporate lawyers and the law firms that work for them accurate, actionable and real-time insight into legal spend – making sense of every firm, matter, task or billable hour.
We’re changing the way law works. By making work-in-progress visible and giving General Counsels comprehensible, real-time insight, we’re helping them hold their legal panels to account. Equally, we’re helping pioneering law firms to demonstrate value and develop transparent new business models.
For the first time, GCs can become a strategic contributor to their businesses. Data for transparency, accuracy and actionable insight. Every other branch of corporate life has it. With Apperio, the legal team has it, too.
Winners of the “UK Law Firm of the Year 2018” title at this year’s Legal Business Awards, Shoosmiths is a major UK law firm acting for 20 of the FTSE100 and 38 of the FTSE250. The firm invests in the relationships it has with clients, actively working with them to help achieve their strategic, commercial and compliance goals.
In addition to core strengths in corporate, commercial, real estate, dispute resolution and employment law, Shoosmiths offers highly-regarded national specialisms in competition compliance, insurance, pensions, regulatory law, corporate re-organisation/streamlining (including M&A and company secretarial), and data protection. A network of UK offices makes us easily accessible to clients, with offices in all major UK cities, including London and Edinburgh.
Halebury is a NewLaw firm offering a range of strategic resourcing options to FTSE 250 and SME businesses. Founded in 2007 by former in-house lawyers in response to the pressures by General Counsels (GCs) to do “more for less”, Halebury’s unique resourcing model is designed to provide genuine flexibility to clients in meeting their legal resourcing requirements. Ten years on the firm has grown to a team of 35 senior in-house lawyers and has partnerships with clients such at BT, Sky and Virgin Media. It is highly ranked in the Legal 500 for its work in Technology, Media and Telecoms.
Halebury has particular expertise in advising on and implementing legal transformation projects for in-house teams and businesses.
Transatlantic Law International is a London based leading innovative global business law provider for multinationals and expanding companies with dedicated affiliated law firms in over 95 countries and 4500 lawyers worldwide, providing a true cost effective one stop for international legal solutions, across the broad range of business law requirements for all major industries, including complete labor and employment law support for companies worldwide through its Labor Law Plus® division.
The firm delivers innovative solutions through a unique centrally managed service, harnessing the abilities of the best lawyers from leading independent firms worldwide into one global system delivering highly effective cost efficient services on one set of terms and conditions with a simplified global rate system geared towards transparency and cost control, and with pre-budgeting of all assignments and projects, all from the perspective of corporate General Counsel and business requirements, the basis on which the group was established over 15 years ago.
Services cover the full range of critical business law areas including mergers & acquisitions; restructuring and reorganization; complex transactions; technology and IP; corporate and commercial law; labor & employment law; property and leasing; expansion into new countries and exits; regulation; litigation; corporate debt recovery; claims management; and all other major business law requirements essential to international business.
For further information, see www.transatlanticlaw.com and www.laborlawplus.com
Taylor Root is one of the world’s most recognised brands for legal, compliance and corporate governance search and recruitment. Operating from ten offices around the world and with over 100 specialised consultants, many of whom are legally qualified in their local jurisdictions, we consider ourselves a market leader within our industry. With a history of success spanning almost three decades, we have developed an exceptional network of contacts throughout both the private practice and in-house markets. Our clients include most of the world’s leading law firms as well as a large proportion of the FTSE 250 and Fortune 500 companies.
Expolink’s whistleblowing services enable employees to speak up and report their workplace concerns, in confidence.
Founded in 1995, we are Europe’s longest-established provider of outsourced whistleblowing solutions. Today we offer a uniquely comprehensive service – including the widest range of speak up channels on the market – supported by highly configurable case management software.
Expolink is trusted by many of the world’s largest brands and institutions, helping them minimise risk in order to protect their employees, reputation and profits.
20 Essex Street is a leading commercial barristers’ chambers that specialises in providing advocacy and expert legal advice to domestic and overseas clients in complex international commercial and financial services litigation, international arbitration and public and private international law disputes. Members are acknowledged experts in the fields of: arbitration; banking and financial services; civil fraud; competition; energy and natural resources; EU law and Brexit; insolvency, international trade, insurance and reinsurance, offshore; public and private international law; shipping and trade regulation. 20 Essex Street is a progressive set with a dynamic client-centric clerking team focusing on understanding clients’ commercial priorities and providing a high-quality service. The set’s premises in London are conveniently located for the Royal Courts of Justice and leading arbitration centres. 20 Essex Street also has a fully staffed office at Maxwell Chambers in Singapore.
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