No matter your industry or geographic location, your company and other companies around the world have a common need – a need for fast, practical, economical and value-added legal counsel in addressing the issues that face their organizations everyday – the preparation and negotiation of business-fueling agreements and counseling, along with advice on managing risks facing their business.

You also have a common problem – finding the resources to review and advise on these issues at the speed of business.

Enter Bryan Cave’s Commercial Practice Rapid Response Team.

Our job is to make your job easier.

As our clients around the world strive to streamline their processes while managing their bottom lines, Bryan Cave’s Commercial Practice Rapid Response Team increasingly has become the resource of choice for companies looking to achieve efficiencies as they improve service quality, leverage resources and minimize response time. Our flexible approach has proven effective for both clients with in-house corporate counsel and clients without internal legal staff.

The team provides fast, practical, value-added counsel to clients in the preparation and negotiation of many commercial agreements, business counseling and “crisis” management. Often, the need centers around review of commercial agreements of the “traditional” variety, including terms and conditions of purchase and sale, distributorship and representative arrangements, consulting and other services contracts, confidentiality agreements, employment matters, noncompetition agreements, licensing arrangements and other similar matters. However, we are also called upon to craft unique solutions for our clients in this increasingly complex, rapidly paced and global economy.

With more than 50 team members located in our offices around the world, Bryan Cave can provide the right people in the right place with the appropriate experience and resources to efficiently address the many transaction agreements key to the conduct of day-to-day business.

Clients of Bryan Cave’s Commercial Practice Rapid Response Team benefit from:

• Rapid response. Team lawyers respond quickly and directly to the client.
• Depth of experience. Given their focus in these areas, members of the team are proficient in handling traditional commercial agreements.  This allows us to provide wise and practiced counsel.
• Local capabilities, global vision. In an increasingly global environment, it is critical for transaction professionals to have both local capabilities and global vision. As a leading international law firm with offices around the world, and a vast network of local counsel relationships, we are familiar with the laws of the land – no matter where you may be.
• Efficient use of resources. Bryan Cave understands the cost sensitivities inherent in many commercial matters. Members of the team combine their own depth of experience and the firm’s database of form documents to avoid duplicate efforts and achieve cost-efficiencies.
• Foresight. Form and document files are built to meet clients’ current and future needs.
• Freeing of resources to focus on strategy. The team helps free client staffs from many of their day-to-day tactical responsibilities. With our help, client counsel and other executives can gain more control over their most valuable resource – time – giving them time to devote to strategy; time to accelerate other projects; time to focus on customers.
• Improved Processes. By outsourcing these traditional agreements, companies often find they capture new efficiencies. As a result, resources can be reallocated to other important projects.
• Focus on the client’s needs. With Bryan Cave’s commitment to shared resources and smart use of technology, the team quickly identifies lawyers with the appropriate type and level of experience for the project at hand.
• Continuity. Clients have access to a team of lawyers to provide seamless coverage. Both the client and the firm benefit from the familiarity and experience of repeatedly working together.
• Integrated approach. When the need for “specialized” advice arises, we can quickly consult any of the more than 1,000 Bryan Cave lawyers and others professionals practicing internationally in more than two dozen specialties, including trade regulation, intellectual property, real estate, environmental, finance, tax, labor, employment, litigation and other areas.
• Continuous improvement. The team’s performance is regularly evaluated to ensure that clients benefit from their experience with us. Client feedback is a valued part of this process.

Bryan Cave continues to seek innovative solutions to our clients’ business issues. Our Commercial Practice Rapid Response Team is a unique and powerful business tool that does just that by taking the administrative, drafting and negotiating burden off of our clients for many traditional commercial agreements. The result is an approach that provides prompt, economical and sound legal counsel to our clients seeking progress toward closure.

If you would like more information about Bryan Cave’s Commercial Practice Rapid Response Team, please call the team leader, Erika Schenk (314.259.2252). You also may contact your relationship lawyer at Bryan Cave.