Governance and Transactions assists listed company Boards with periodic assessments of Board performance, and with the upgrade of Board structure and practices to conform to changing requirements or circumstances.
The firm assists private equity firms and other private owners, as well as pre-IPO companies with the design of appropriate governance frameworks.
Jim Gunderson serves in Board and management positions where appropriate to drive the changes desired by Governance and Transactions clients.
Governance and Transactions provides management consulting services that benefit from thorough knowledge of the law and a great deal of practical international experience. Those services include assistance with the management of a client’s in-house legal function, when, for example, rapid growth or expansion overseas has left gaps in their internal legal capabilities.
The firm also assists companies with difficult problems involving legal issues where legal advice alone isn’t enough. The firm works with the client’s legal team to develop appropriate solutions based on Jim’s experience with similar problems at other companies he has worked with.
Governance and Transactions assists Boards and management with the development and implementation of comprehensive legal and ethical compliance programs tailored to the characteristics of the company, its businesses and the geographic markets in which it operates.
The firm offers a range of compliance training services.
Jim has served in enforcement-agency approved compliance oversight roles when needed to help resolve a client’s compliance problems.
From its inception Governance and Transactions has assisted mid-sized companies with divestitures that would otherwise prove too distracting for existing operational management. The firm also assists with the legal structuring of international operations, particularly where joint ventures are involved.