KPMG LAW / GLOBAL LEGAL SERVICES (GLS)

KPMG Law / GLS professionals is much more than a traditional law firm – We focus on providing our clients with a broad range of legal services and solutions, beyond classic legal advice or transactions – To meet your most complex challenges and support you to capture opportunities, we provide quality lawyers, who can provide global solutions delivered by an integrated team with a geographic footprint that few traditional law firms can match.

Putting the best team on the field — Our people are modern legal professionals who are globally-connected to a team of over 2,850 lawyers in 81 jurisdictions; and who have deep multidisciplinary expertise, business acumen and strategic experience required to advise clients on domestic and international laws and to navigate the opportunities and challenges of local, regional and global business; and who are empowered by technology.

Delivering specialized solutions — We provide you with innovative and integrated solutions by combining our global footprint, our specialist legal expertise, the power of the broader KPMG organization, access to market leading enterprise and legal technology and our global experience structuring and managing innovative solutions.

Reimagining law — We work alongside our clients to modernize, simplify and digitize their legal function with the support of a global team with experience, real credentials, a mindset for innovation and the power of KPMG’s relationships with leading technology providers.

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Please note: Certain member firms of KPMG International, including the US member firm, KPMG LLP, do not provide legal services.

Industry Insights

Future of Legal

A series of articles, publications and podcasts created for in-house legal leaders. Here, our legal professionals delve deeper into the forces that are impacting businesses and the opportunities in-house counsels have to evolve and reimagine their roles and functions for success.

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Global Legal Department Benchmarking Survey

KPMG International’s Global Legal Department Benchmarking Survey, which includes data from companies of all sizes, offers transparent and objective benchmarks that can help leaders of legal departments position their teams for success in the years to come.

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Solutions

Business reorganization

Economic uncertainty and increasing business complexity, coupled with ongoing demands from stakeholders, are driving many organizations to re-evaluate their business models. In the wake of COVID-19, many will face ongoing challenges in terms of managing cash and liquidity, stabilizing the business to weather lingering economic uncertainty, and planning for long-term revival of the business. For many organizations, reestablishing an optimal capital structure will require new restructuring solutions.

KPMG Law/ GLS professionals can support clients whether a restructuring is planned or due to an unexpected event such as a critical regulatory change or a need to accelerate and divestment of non-core activity. We provide support with the drafting of required documentation relevant to implementing a restructuring and provide advice and guidance on the legal considerations including core business execution, such as asset ring-fencing and global intellectual property strategy.

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Data, Digital, Technology

The development of new markets, rising costs, complex regulatory requirements, changes in communication and progressive digitalization are all pushing legal departments to transform. Transforming through the use of technology and automating pre-defined processes and tasks can help the legal department fulfil its obligations efficiently and with consistent quality, despite fast changing conditions. It can help organizations save time and resources so they can focus on more complex matters and greater value-creating activities.

In collaboration with highly specialized process experts, data analysts and IT experts from KPMG member firms, KPMG Law / GLS professionals help organizations implement an effective digitalization strategy for their legal function which may include:

• Technology implementation and outsourcing projects
• IoT, smart technology and software
• Cloud and as-a-service projects
• Privacy compliance, impact assessments and data breaches
• IP licensing, commercialization and management
• Utilizing and managing big data — Contract lifecycle management — Global entity management — Blockchain and distributed ledger technology

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Legal operations transformation services

Legal departments are operating in an environment with increased regulation, scrutiny and pressures on costs, yet must maintain a clear focus on providing value and a more efficient approach to legal service delivery. In today’s environment, with the added impacts of COVID-19, the pressure to reimagine the legal operating model has become even more acute. Organizations are looking to their legal leaders to reduce costs, increase visibility and predictive capabilities, enhance risk and governance processes and make data-driven decisions.

KPMG Law / GLS professionals support clients in building a legal operating model that matches the needs of their business and aligns with their organization’s strategic objectives. Our teams take a holistic view of the entire legal operating model – identifying improvement opportunities across people, process and technology – to help clients transform their legal departments and achieve operational and business excellence while re-focusing on where their value matters most. This helps reinforce the legal team’s position as an integrated adviser to the organization whose expertise is actively sought out to reduce risk, improve internal client experience and drive economic outcomes for the business.

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Global entity management

In today’s increasingly complex business environment, it has become more imperative than ever for large multinational corporations to have clear oversight and control of their subsidiaries around the world. The risks of non-compliance are increasing, with a growing threat of fines and regulatory censure, while directors face greater personal responsibility. At the same time those individuals tasked with managing basic legal compliance are stretched on already limited resources and face increased pressure to reduce costs while potentially not having complete visibility on current spend globally.

KPMG Law/ GLS professionals can support clients with a dedicated project manager to give oversight and control across your global group structure. Our global network of legal advisors provides the local expertise to support your central project manager in the delivery of in-country governance and compliance requirements.

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Mass claims

Mass procedures such as customer claims, contract revocations or complaints increasingly confront many companies and legal departments with challenges in terms of both time and organization. In addition to assessing complex legal issues, affected companies often struggle with the necessary efficient handling of such situations that requires adequate process set-up, project management and the use of technology where possible and appropriate.

KPMG Law / GLS professionals implement projects for the management of mass proceedings in three phases. To start, a comprehensive scalability analysis is performed, and a project plan is developed. To efficiently manage the procedures, the overall processes, workflow and respective instructions necessary are set-up with certain steps automated using technologies including robotic process automation, document automation, optical character recognition scanning and artificial intelligence. Finally, our teams handle the cases, staffed by the necessary lawyers, project managers and administrative staff.