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Our External In-House Counsel™ model means we truly work as an extension of your team. We are “on the ground” working alongside you to move your business forward in real time. This approach puts your need for continuity first, by building in resource redundancy to every project, while we work to your business timelines.

Our team is structured to give you access to a diverse team of high performing specialists with global experience covering financial services, corporate, commercial and compliance / regulatory matters. The expertise and previous in-house experience allow us to work with a cross section of your team, from CEO to portfolio manager, and across EMEA, Asia Pacific and North America regions.

In addition, our firm is built on the premise of transparency, so we only offer fixed fees and monthly retainers, at highly competitive rates.

For more information on how Cleveland & Co External in-house counsel™, your specialist outsourced legal team can help your business, contact us.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

We provide all legal, compliance, regulatory, commercial, practical and strategic advice across a full range of business lines – for examples of what we cover click on the terms below.

Administration
Commission Sharing
Corporate & M&A
Derivatives Trading
Execution and Clearing
Hedge Funds
Outsourcing
Real Estate
Templates & Research
Building Legal Teams
Company Secretarial
Corporate Restructuring
Distribution
Finance & Lending
Institutional
Pooled Pension Funds
Repurchase Transactions
Transition Management
Broker Agreements
Commercial Advice
Custody
Employment Advice
Financial Services Regulation
Listed Investment Companies
Private Equity
Securities Lending
UCITS and Non-UCITS

ADMINISTERING OATHS

We offer an oath administration service to our clients whereby we can verify one or more written statements of fact for you in the form of an affidavit.

Our fees are in line with those prescribed by the Commissioners for Oaths (Fees) Order 1993/2297 and are as follows:

– administering an oath in an affidavit or an affirmation or a statutory declaration – £5.
– each exhibit or schedule referred to in the affidavit/ affirmation/ statutory declaration, which is required to be marked – £2.

All fees are inclusive of VAT.

If you have any questions about oaths, affirmations and statutory declarations and when they are required, please do get in touch.