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Corporate & governance
Selected formation, ownership, authority, approval, resolution, recordkeeping, reportorial-responsibility, and corporate-access-control issues apparent from the documents reviewed.
Business legal risk
See the risk.
Set the priorities.
A defined review of the legal issues facing your business.
Overview
Business Legal Risk Review
See the legal risks management should address next.
A structured legal review of selected corporate, contractual, employer, tax-process, and compliance risks, resulting in issue identification, prioritization, and a practical management action plan.
Standard professional fee
₱50,000
A defined-scope legal diagnostic, not a legal audit, compliance certification, assurance engagement, or opinion that a company is fully compliant.
What the review is, and what it is not
What the review is, and what it is not
The client receives identification, prioritization, and management action planning based only on selected documents actually reviewed, facts management discloses, and the agreed scope. Unknown facts, missing documents, inaccurate information, and excluded matters can affect the conclusions.
Defined-scope legal diagnostic
A structured review of selected records, not an examination of every company record.
Management-level report
Clear findings and business ownership of next actions, rather than a numerical legal-health score.
Standalone value
The report is designed to be useful even if no further NLF work is purchased.
Standard scope: one entity and approximately 100 pages
Standard scope: one entity and approximately 100 pages
One Philippine business entity
Ordinarily one corporation, One Person Corporation, partnership, or another accepted single Philippine entity. Subsidiaries, affiliates, franchises, and separate legal entities are not automatically one engagement.
Approximately 100 pages total
The standard document volume is a scope control. If essential documents materially exceed it, NLF may substitute documents, expand scope, or recommend another engagement.
Selected documents, focused legal-risk questions.
Five review areas
Selected documents, focused legal-risk questions.
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Material contracts
Issue identification in up to three material commercial contracts, including authority, term, renewal, termination, payment, indemnity, liability allocation, default, dispute provisions, and missing protections.
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Employer legal risk
Employment-documentation and disciplinary-process risks identified within scope from selected templates and policies. Active dismissals and labor proceedings are separately routed.
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Tax process & documentation
High-level responsibility, correspondence, preservation, escalation, and record-organization risks. This is not a tax audit, computation, reconciliation, or BIR defense.
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Compliance & responsibility
Recurring reportorial responsibility, portal and credential control, legal-deadline ownership, authority over filings, and readily apparent issues requiring specialist review.
Matters that must be routed separately
Matters that must be routed separately
A live BIR notice, active employment decision, material dispute, transaction diligence, regulated-industry issue, or investigation should not be absorbed into a general diagnostic simply because it appears in one review area.
- Acquisition or investment due diligence, a complete review of all company records, or any legal-compliance certification
- HR, tax, accounting, privacy, AML, forensic, sector-wide, or litigation-readiness audit
- Complete contract redlining, replacement drafting, negotiation, transaction closing, or legal opinions on every provision
- Employee-by-employee review, payroll, wage computation, interviews, investigations, active termination defense, SEnA, DOLE, NLRC, union, or strike matters
- Tax-return reconciliation, deficiency computation, BIR audit defense, PAN/FLD/FAN/FDDA response, refund work, or CTA litigation
- Active BIR notices, active business disputes, shareholder disputes, regulatory investigations, or deadline-sensitive proceedings
- Multiple entities, material document sets beyond approximately 100 pages, more than three material contracts, or specialized regulated-industry review without a separate scope
An active BIR matter may be routed to the BIR Notice Review & Response Plan or another appropriate tax engagement.
What management receives
What management receives
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Management Legal Risk Report
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Executive Legal Risk Summary
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Corporate & Governance findings
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Material contractual risks identified in the agreements reviewed
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Employment-documentation and disciplinary-process risks identified within scope
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Tax Process & Documentation Risk
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Compliance & Responsibility observations
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Critical / Important / Monitor prioritization
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Immediate / 30 / 60 / 90-Day Legal Action Plan
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One management conference of approximately 60 minutes
Critical, Important, and Monitor are management prioritization categories, not legal-compliance ratings. The action plan identifies practical next steps, responsible business functions, relevant timing, required records, and whether separate legal work may be appropriate.
A defined process, with no obligation to buy more work
A defined process, with no obligation to buy more work
Step 1
Conflict check
Step 2
Scope confirmation
Step 3
Engagement and payment
Step 4
Secure selected-document submission
Step 5
Report and management conference
The review does not create a representation relationship until conflicts are cleared and NLF confirms the engagement in writing. Any remediation, drafting, tax, employment, compliance, dispute, or external-counsel work is separately evaluated and remains optional.
Questions management commonly asks
Questions management commonly asks
Can we include multiple companies?
Not in the standard one-entity scope. NLF can confirm whether a separate or expanded scope is appropriate.
Can we include more than three contracts?
The standard review covers up to three material commercial contracts within the total document limit. Larger or complex sets may require another scope.
Will NLF tell us we are fully compliant?
No. The review identifies issues apparent from selected documents and disclosed facts within scope. It is not an assurance or compliance certification.
Can active BIR or labor matters be included?
No. Active BIR, employment, dispute, investigation, and other deadline-sensitive matters are routed to an appropriate separate engagement.
Can our accountant, HR lead, or corporate secretary join?
Yes. The conference may include relevant management or advisers, subject to conflict and confidentiality considerations.
Determine whether the review fits your company.
Determine whether the review fits your company.
Request a conflict check and scope confirmation. Please do not send bulk confidential documents through the initial form.
Request Conflict Check & Scope ConfirmationSubmitting an inquiry does not create an attorney-client relationship. Engagement is subject to conflict checking and written acceptance.
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