Donaldson Legal Consulting (DLC) has been established to provide legal support to in-house teams in financial institutions, fund managers and corporates. We offer a legal consultancy and outsourcing service relating to derivatives documentation and special projects, specialising in ISDA and commodity documentation. Our clients benefit from a wealth of multi-jurisdictional in-house experience gained at a senior level within both the investment banking industry and funds sector.

With such prior experience, Donaldson Legal Consulting (DLC) can assist fund managers who may not wish to commit to a full-time internal legal resource, or can help an existing legal function during periods of high volumes of work.

Additionally, we understand the pressures and difficulties facing legal and documentation teams within investment banks. We offer a service which can alleviate some of these pressures and assist in the reduction of documentation risk arising from undocumented transactions, either on an on-going basis or during shorter periods of increased volumes or changes in personnel.

To assist in providing a premium and efficient service, we have developed our on-line client-reporting tool - ClientNET.

More particularly our service includes:

• In-house Legal-Style Services for Funds
• Counterparty Documentation Services
• Outsourcing ISDA Master Agreements
• Outsourcing commodity documentation
• Derivatives documentation training
• Drafting updating derivatives commodity manuals
• Due diligence - derivative documentation
• Due diligence - commodity documentation