What the firm is instructed to do

Institutional Governance and Reform

When a board, a statute or a mandate has to work in the institution that will live with it.

Representative work

• Reading of founding texts, terms of reference and appointment arrangements
• Conflicts of interest, minutes and the record an institution must be able to show
• Accompaniment of one defined reform, from the brief to the decisions taken

What we deliver

• A governance note a board can use
• A defined reform, with a file of what was decided

Human Rights Advisory

When an institution needs a clear view of who is competent, what a file must contain, and where a procedure fails the person it is meant to serve.

Representative work

• Advisory notes on a defined human-rights question
• Reading of a complaint, a review or an institutional procedure
• Sessions prepared for the people who carry the file

What we deliver

• An advisory note, with sources and limits
• A prepared session and the papers participants may keep

Rule of Law and International Standards

When independence, reasons, review or an international standard have to be read for a specific actor.

Representative work

• Structured reading of the relevant texts and institutional practice
• Separation of findings from recommendations
• A usable account of a mechanism before counsel is instructed

What we deliver

• A memorandum a secretariat can use
• A research note that leaves the uncertainty visible

Compliance and Responsible Business

When duties already apply, and policies, partnerships or reporting do not yet meet them.

Representative work

• Mapping of obligations already in force
• Gaps between policies, and conflicts a text has not resolved
• Preparation before a partnership or a public commitment is signed

What we deliver

• A compliance memorandum naming sources and limits

Strategic Research and Analysis

When a decision needs a corpus, a method and a conclusion that does not outrun the material.

Representative work

• Documentary and institutional research with a method another professional can follow
• Analysis of a policy, a file or an institution
• A record of what was read, what was unavailable, and what remains uncertain

What we deliver

• A research note with the corpus and the gaps
• An analytical memorandum

Training and Institutional Project Support

When people who hold a mandate need a prepared session, or a project needs to move from terms of reference to a usable record.

Representative work

• Sessions written for a particular room: boards, secretariats, officials, defenders
• Materials the participants may keep
• Accompaniment of a defined project, without taking over the client’s own authority

What we deliver

• A session and its papers
• An accompanied project, with the record of decisions