At Aptus Legal, we believe that clarity in scope and delivery is as important as the legal advice itself.
Our approach is built on transparency, structure and adaptability, ensuring each client is offered clearly defined engagement models and packages aligned with their personal or business goals.
Each engagement begins with a clear scope of work, agreed deliverables and timelines, ensuring predictability and complete visibility from the outset.
Our engagement model is agile and tailored to each client’s needs, ranging from conventional hourly billing to clearly defined packages that offer structure, flexibility and value.
\\ Hourly Engagements
For clients seeking flexibility without long-term commitment, we offer hourly engagements at competitive hourly rates. This model suits ad hoc legal advice, transactional work, document reviews or specialist input on specific matters.
Even under hourly engagements, each task is scoped in advance to ensure efficiency, clarity and transparency in time and cost. When we have a clear understanding of the scope and timeframes involved, we can also offer a capped fee based on clearly defined parameters and assumptions.
\\ Retainer Support
Our Retainer Packages provide continuous access to high-quality legal support under a structured and predictable model, essentially acting as your in-house legal team as a service.
Retainers are ideal for clients requiring ongoing advice across multiple workstreams, varying from contract reviews to compliance, regulatory updates and corporate governance. This model offers the benefit of an effectively lower hourly rate at a pre-agreed level, reflecting the value of a long-term partnership.
Each retainer defines the number of hours, deliverables and reporting intervals in advance, ensuring transparency, responsiveness and adaptability to your business priorities.
\\ Project-Based Engagements
Our Project-Based Packages are designed for focused, outcome-driven matters such as transaction-specific drafting and negotiation, legal consultancy, policy development or regulatory implementation.
We also assist with licensing and authorisation processes for regulated industries, including fintech, financial services, payments, fund management and investment sectors.
Each engagement starts with a clearly defined objective, scope, deliverables and completion timeline, ensuring an efficient process and accountability at every stage.
\\ Fixed Services
Certain services follow a defined, repeatable structure. For these, we offer fixed-scope solutions with clearly documented deliverables and timelines. Examples of such fixed services are the following:
Company incorporation and ongoing company administration: designed to help clients establish and maintain their legal entities with ease and efficiency. We manage the entire incorporation process, from structuring to registration, ensuring compliance and readiness from day one. Ongoing administration includes annual returns, statutory records and corporate resolutions, as well as, filings with Registrar of Companies.
IP Package: Identify, register and protect intellectual property across jurisdictions (domestic, EUIPO and WIPO). Our services include trademark searches and filings, renewals, copyright protection, licensing documentation, and guidance on commercial exploitation of IP assets. We also assist with IP audits and strategy development to ensure effective protection and monetisation of intangible assets.
Policy Development: internal policy development, manuals and frameworks, tailored to the applicable compliance framework, whether AML, DORA, NIS2, ISO certification, data protection or other sector-specific regulation.
Contract Template Drafting: tailored to specific industries or areas of practice, such as, NDAs, employment contracts, share option schemes, lease agreements, consultancy and service agreements. Each template is thoughtfully prepared by our lawyers to balance efficiency with the human insight and legal judgement that no automated AI tool can replace, ensuring clarity, accuracy and commercial relevance.
Each fixed engagement is delivered with precision and predictability, allowing clients to plan ahead with confidence.
Our Governance and Regulatory Outsourcing Packages provide ongoing compliance, governance and oversight support for regulated and unregulated entities. We act as an extension of your internal control function, delivering independent monitoring, structured reporting and expert regulatory guidance. We provide this support with the same precision and accountability as an internal function, ensuring seamless integration with our clients’ governance structures.
Depending on your business model and regulatory framework, our outsourcing solutions for eligible clients may include:
Outsourced Data Protection Officer (DPO) services
Outsourced AML and Compliance Officer support
Corporate secretarial and governance oversight, to include, board support, statutory filings and maintenance of registers
Directorship services provided to eligible clients offering genuine management insight and added governance value
Registered office support
Each engagement is structured with defined deliverables and reporting intervals, ensuring clarity, accountability and continuous compliance oversight.
\\ Start-Ups & Founders
Our Start-Up Packages are designed to help new businesses move forward with clarity, confidence and the right legal foundation. We support founders from the moment of incorporation, providing structured guidance and ready-to-use documentation that evolves with the business.
We bring a wealth of experience and practical insight to start-ups and founders. helping them avoid early-stage pitfalls and build on a solid legal framework. Supporting entrepreneurs is a core objective of our practice. We recognise that legal budgets are often limited at the beginning, and we see our work with early-stage companies as an investment in their future growth and long-term success.
Each package covers the essentials every early-stage company needs, from incorporation to investor engagement, such as:
Incorporation and onboarding: tailored guidance on corporate structure and shareholder alignment
Founders’ toolkit: NDAs, consultancy and collaboration templates aligned with your business model
Digital launch essentials: website terms, privacy notices and cookie policies to ensure compliance and credibility
Growth readiness: investment documentation and advisory support on governance and equity
Our packages are flexible and scalable, designed to grow alongside our clients’ businesses and adapt to the needs of their industry. Each engagement begins with a clear definition of scope, deliverables and timeline, ensuring full transparency throughout
