Every in-house lawyer, legal team or business occasionally needs a supporting hand with their legal aspects. Finding such support however is not always easy. At Liber.ius, we want our clients to know that we are with them on their journey and want to provide them with the full support they need, in an efficient and comprehensive way.

That is why Liber.ius has developed its ‘FlexLex’ formula. In a nutshell, we offer attractive formulas to support your in-house team in an agile and affordable way, assisting exactly where needed and useful. Not by seconding a single person but by putting the expertise and know-how of an entire hand-picked and dedicated team at your disposal, with all the advantages this entails.

• Benefit from a group’s expertise, knowledge and experience, rather than the skill of one single talented individual;
• Have different levels of experience and seniority at your disposal, at adjusted rates, to match the various jobs at hand; and
• Have a safety net for very busy moments, with more hands available when they are needed.

All our lawyers are commercially-minded multi-linguists with vast in-house experience, used to working in a multicultural environment, who will sit down with your team, roll up their sleeves and get the job done in pleasant co-operation. Our quality lies in our people. Based in Belgium, with a vast international outlook, each of our lawyers delivers at the highest standards, excellence gained at the world’s top law firms and corporate legal departments. Our diverse group of expert legal minds all have international hands-on experience and are focussed on delivering top notch solutions and services and developing valuable long-term client relationships.

Under our ‘FlexLex’ formula we discuss your needs and then propose packages whereby we build you a dedicated team that will deliver an agreed number of hours of support per month, depending on your specific needs and budget, with favourable rates. Every assignment will, in consultation with you, be allocated to and handled by a team member with the appropriate expertise and level of experience, supervised where required, to ensure your resources are efficiently used. The practicalities are set out further below.

Our ‘FlexLex’ teams assist many EU/ US/ UK based legal teams with their EU needs, supporting them in their business and growth. The dedicated team we would assemble typically has the right competences and extensive experience in assisting clients with their exact legal needs, ranging from

• Commercial documents (NDAs, IP licences, complex contracts, framework and distribution agreements)
• SaaS/ PaaS/ cPaas/ IaaS framework documentation
• IP matters, trade secrets (knowhow protection)
• Data control and GDPR
• Regulatory/compliance processes, public tenders
• Cross-border M&A and restructurings
• Corporate support, company formations and corporate housekeeping
• Competition law and merger control
• Legal disputes, litigation and risks
• JVs, partnerships, shareholder structures
• Employment and pension matters
• Chasing debtors

We look forward to turning legal problems into business solutions for you. That is what we call #LegallyDisruptive.

The Liber.ius team.

Dear Entrepreneur,

When you started your business, struggling with legal paperwork was probably not high on your bucket list. We get that. You want to do business, create new solutions, innovate and (perhaps) change the world while doing so.

But to succeed in this day’s economy, you need a firm legal backbone. Liber.ius understands the needs of your start-up venture and offers a full range of bespoke legal services to allow you to focus on what truly matters: your business.

Therefore, we commit to pragmatism and transparency, both in how we do business with you as in our legal advice. This includes:

• Hands-on pragmatic legal tools and advice (aka no endless & unnecessarily complex memo’s)
• Ultra-competitive pricing and predictable fees (aka no surprises)
• A genuine interest in and understanding of your business environment (aka a true partnership)

To make this real for you, at the outset of our business relationship, we propose the following commonly used contracts and documents in a competitively priced Legal Toolkit:

• Shareholders’ agreement
• General Terms and Conditions of Sale and Service
• Non-disclosure agreement to negotiate with third parties
• DPA: Data Processing Agreement (GDPR)

Our Legal Toolkit is more than just a compilation of a few templates that you can just as easily find online. Like a good tailor-made suit, they are customized to your business size and requirements: we take the time to truly understand your business and adapt the contracts to your needs.

This “turnkey” Legal Toolkit is offered to start-ups* for a competitive 990 EUR ex VAT (Start-ups = less than 5 FTE’s, 250,000 EUR Turnover and less than 3 years of existence).

But we don’t stop here: we are a business partner, aiming to make you grow to infinity and beyond. We know that growing isn’t easy and that there will be bumps in the road ahead. We’ll be there for you. To find out what we can help you with, just turn to the next page.

We look forward to turning legal problems into business solutions for you. That is what we call #LegallyDisruptive.

The Liber.ius team.

Other Service areas where Liber.ius could help you:

Inception

• How do you set up a company under Belgian law?
• Advice on which company structure is right for your business
• By-laws (specify your corporate purpose in line with your venture)
• Creating a Limited Liability Company/ Private Limited Company check-list

Operations

• Real estate & Leasing agreements review
• Memorandum of Understanding
• Contracts with partners and suppliers
• Platform or Infrastructure agreements (IaaS/PaaS)
• Software agreements (SaaS)
• Outsourcing agreements
• Commercial agreements
• Non-compete agreements
• Employment contracts
• Service provision contracts
• Product sale contracts
• Cooperation agreements
• As required: DPIA (Data Privacy Impact Analysis)

On-Line

• Agreements with website builders
• E-commerce B2B and B2C
• Privacy notice and cookie policy (GDPR)

Intellectual Property

• Trademark Registrations.
• Protection of know-how and confidential information
• NDAs (non-disclosure agreements)
• Licensing agreements
• Joint venture agreements

Corporate Life

• Funding, capital increases and Investment Agreements
• Negotiation support with investors
• Share transfer agreement or Share Purchase Agreement
• General Meeting minutes
• Management Board Meeting minutes
• Limited Liability Company voting power table
• Rolling out of corporate policies and compliance programs

• Contract Simplification

• Whistleblowing