Expertise
Allan McDougall is a consulting principal at Keypoint Law. He specialises in finance and banking transactions, company security interests and property mortgages, equipment leasing and receivables funding techniques.
He also has considerable expertise in business succession and exits, such as company sales and share purchases, equity buy/sell arrangements, and shareholders agreements.
In the context of corporate disputes Allan draws on his considerable negotiation and dispute resolution expertise from his banking industry days.
Values
Allan McDougall Lawyer
Allan recognises that the business of law is about providing a service which is both timely and useful to his clients. Allan sees no point in prolonging negotiations, obsessing over contact drafting differences or point-scoring if a commercial result is going to delayed or jeopardised.
Allan is conscious too that the wider business environment has become considerably more complex since the late 1990s, with an ever growing thicket of laws and regulations. Allan tries to “cut though the chaff” for his clients, such that they appreciate the main implications of their actions. Allan feels that’s in that way his clients can make better decisions as managers and businesses owners.
As a Consulting Principal of Keypoint Law (Keypoint), Allan contracts his services to clients through the infrastructure of Keypoint. This enables him and other Keypoint lawyers to focus on delivering quality service to their clients without the distraction of administration, the burden of management, or the concerns of a partnership. In other words, Allan and his Keypoint colleagues aim to provide a high standard of service at good value. Collectively they offer a depth and breadth of experience that makes Keypoint a formidable full service law firm.
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