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October 1, 2025
What SEC Filers Need to Know: The Impact of the Federal Government Shutdown

The U.S. federal government officially shut down overnight following a bipartisan impasse on federal budget measures. Beyond the immediate effects on the stock and bond markets and the furlough of approximately 750,000 federal workers, the shutdown has disrupted federal court activities and significantly reduced SEC operations.

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September 18, 2025
ALSPs: A Flexible Solution for Fund Formation and Ongoing Compliance

Learn why fund managers are turning to alternative legal services providers like Agile Legal for support on fund formation and ongoing management efforts.

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September 9, 2025
Coming to Terms: Contract Management Considerations for SMBs

Learn why more small and midsize businesses are turning to Agile Legal for comprehensive contract lifecycle management to safeguard interests and move the business forward.

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August 7, 2025
ALSPs: The “Secret” to a Better M&A Due Diligence Process

Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures can unlock powerful strategic advantages for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). But they also come with significant risk, especially when due diligence is rushed or poorly executed. 

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July 30, 2025
The Hidden Risks of Forming a Company

The decision to start a business is both exciting and complex. While launching a new venture begins with bold ideas and big ambitions, many founders underestimate the legal, tax and compliance challenges in formally establishing a company.

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July 22, 2025
Private Funds: Navigating the Finalized AML/KYC Regulations

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has finalized a rule that brings private fund managers under the scope of the Bank Secrecy Act. Effective January 1, 2028, this rule mandates that certain investment advisers implement comprehensive anti-money laundering and know-your-customer (KYC) programs. 

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June 23, 2025
Institutional Investors to Funds: Your KYC is Broken, Please Fix It

Know your customer may not be a new concept, but it remains a persistent point of contention in fund operations, especially for institutional investors. As a cornerstone of global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulations, KYC is designed to ensure that financial institutions and regulated entities are not conducting business with fraudulent or high-risk clients.

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June 13, 2025
Keeping it Confidential: 10 Key Elements of an NDA

Confidentiality has never been more critical for organizations operating in today’s global business environment. Whether negotiating strategic partnerships, onboarding service providers, exploring acquisitions or hiring key employees, protecting proprietary and sensitive information is a top priority.

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June 5, 2025
From Chaos to Compliance: The Importance of Centralized Subsidiary Oversight

As organizations grow, so does the complexity of managing global legal entities. Global subsidiary management often becomes fragmented across spreadsheets, internal business functions and borders. Why? A lack of upfront planning, limited access to scalable tools and no clear ownership of entity oversight are typically to blame.

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May 27, 2025
Why ALSPs Are the Best Legal Support for Small & Midsize Businesses

Small and midsize businesses face a catch-22 when it comes to legal support: they need it to grow and protect their operations, but the traditional legal system isn’t built for them.

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May 19, 2025
An AI Policy is Now a Business Essential

Artificial intelligence is no longer a future-facing buzzword. It’s already transforming how businesses operate—automating workflows, generating insights and powering technology. But with all that power comes growing legal, ethical and reputational risks.

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May 13, 2025
Beyond Borders: 6 Keys to Successful Global Subsidiary Management

As global expansion accelerates, many businesses struggle to manage compliance and governance across international subsidiaries. Getting this right isn’t just about structure – it’s about strategic execution. 

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April 22, 2025
Staying Agile: A Q&A With Reyner Meikle, CEO & President of Agile Legal

Small and midsize businesses often struggle to manage legal projects due to a lack of internal resources. This leaves only one viable solution: Engage costly outside counsel for assistance. When urgent legal and compliance issues arise, it becomes an even more tenuous situation to quickly navigate the issues at hand, while maintaining control over efficiency, quality and legal spend.

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April 21, 2025
Broker-Dealers: What Reg A Issuers Should Know

Regulation A, Tier 2 offerings provide a means for issuers to raise up to $75 million in capital annually without the regulatory hurdles of a full registration process with the SEC. Issuers can sell their own securities in most U.S. states, but New Jersey, Washington and Texas require issuers to register as dealers if they do not engage a broker-dealer to facilitate Regulation A, Tier 2 offerings. 

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March 6, 2025
Branch vs. Subsidiary: Which Structure is Right for Your Global Operations?

When expanding into new international markets, products or service lines, organizations can establish a branch or a subsidiary. Both entities have distinct characteristics, with the most significant difference being the impact on the company’s risk management strategy. 

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February 26, 2025
Streamline Your Corporate Structure With Legal Entity Rationalization

Global economic pressures and increased cost sensitivity are prompting many multinational corporations to reassess their legal entity structures. Whether driven by mergers and the resulting need to address redundancies or general fluctuations in business activity, a variety of factors must be considered during the legal entity rationalization process.

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February 21, 2025
The Rise of ALSPs: Transforming Legal Operations and Business Strategy

The 2025 Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSP) Report, published by Georgetown Law, the University of Oxford and the Thomson Reuters Institute, provides a compelling snapshot of an industry experiencing rapid expansion and transformation. 

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February 10, 2025
The State of the U.S. Legal Market in 2025: The Rise of Alternative Legal Service Providers

The U.S. legal market is experiencing a period of rapid evolution, driven by changing client expectations, technological advancements and the ongoing push for greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness. 

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February 7, 2025
Effective Global Subsidiary Management: More Than Meets the Eye

As companies right-size – whether it’s scaling up in various jurisdictions or closing operations in others – there are many considerations to effectively manage local subsidiaries and maintain good standing in international locations. 

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January 23, 2025
SEC EDGAR System Updates Are Approaching: Are You Ready?

In September 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled a series of amendments to its Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) system. 

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January 6, 2025
A Compliance Reminder: SEC Charges Firms for Late Form D Filings

On Dec. 20, 2024, the SEC announced settled charges against two private companies and one registered investment adviser for failing to timely submit Form D filings for several unregistered securities offerings, violating Rule 503 of Regulation D.

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June 10, 2024
Top Fund Industry Sources

Fund industry news is scattered across the web, making it difficult to find relevant, quality information. Are these sources on your radar?

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May 14, 2024
What is a Trademark: Protecting Your Intellectual Property with a Thriving Business

Intellectual property is an essential part of your business. Explore the importance of establishing a registered trademark and learn how to protect it.

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April 15, 2024
How to Successfully Manage Legal Projects as Your Small Business Grows

Juggling regular operations and legal project management for small businesses can be a challenge. Read our tips for staying on top of it all.

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March 11, 2024
Understanding Regulation A, Tier 2 Offering Compliance

Regulation A, Tier 2 offering compliance is a complex process involving strict adherence to securities laws and SEC guidance. Review these basics to better understand Regulation A offering compliance.

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March 7, 2024
Corporate Transparency Act Deemed Unconstitutional

A district court’s recent ruling complicates the future of the Corporate Transparency Act. How will this impact reporting companies?

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February 14, 2024
Learn to Love Your Legal Projects Again

Times change, passion wanes and burnout sets in. How do you sustain your love and motivation for legal projects? Agile Legal’s team delves into their experiences.

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December 1, 2023
All You Need to Know About Corporate Transparency Act Compliance

Corporate Transparency Act compliance is crucial to avoid FinCEN’s penalties that will be enforced in the biggest change to US business law in decades.

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November 17, 2023
The Common Mistakes of Regulation D Offerings

Regulation D issuers may face many challenges when filing their offering. Avoid these common mistakes to ensure your private offering’s compliance.

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December 20, 2022
Common Law vs. Civil Law: Understanding Global Legal Systems

Legal frameworks around the world can broadly be categorized into two main systems: common law and civil law. Understanding the differences between these two systems is crucial for navigating international business and maintaining compliance across borders.

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November 23, 2022
The Top 3 States To Incorporate In

Forming your corporation is a challenging task to overcome. One of the most crucial steps to the formation process is determining what state you’re going to incorporate your entity in.

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October 12, 2022
The Keys to a Successful Privacy Program

Lack of privacy can turn your client’s and your business’s lives upside down. If you’re a business owner, then you know how easy it is to become focused on building your brand and delivering excellent customer care, so much so that it’s also easy to let some of the most important matters suffer. It is especially the case when it comes to data security. When is the last time you considered how secure your data privacy program is? Can you say beyond a shadow of a doubt that your clients’ information is entirely safe?

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October 5, 2022
What Indemnification Means for You

Indemnification language is generally the most negotiated, but also the most important, language within any agreement. In layman’s terms, indemnification clauses allocate risk between the parties to a contract (i.e. – which party is responsible for what risk). The term “indemnify” means to “compensate someone for harm or loss” or “secure someone against legal responsibility for their actions.” Indemnity language can be very confusing and complicated and we will not attempt to cover all its nuances in this article, but the following helpful tips can ease the review process and ensure your company is giving as few indemnities as possible so as to minimize its risk.

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September 30, 2022
Privacy Awareness and Employee Behavior

Data privacy and rules mandated by the General Data Regulation Protection (GDRP) took effect in late spring 2018.

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September 15, 2022
Best Practices for Governing Documents

More often than not, there are several documents which collectively govern business relationships. Before signing a Master Agreement (or any other contract for that matter), it is important to review it carefully (among other things) for language which incorporates and binds you to the terms of other documents which are incorporated by reference.

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September 13, 2022
Is Arbitration the Correct Path for You?

Arbitration is an alternative to consider instead of litigation. Will arbitration save you money? What are the pros? What are the advantages and disadvantages?

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August 3, 2022
Most Common Contract Issues

Companies use Agile to collect and abstract all their existing agreements. This has given our team great insight into common contract issues across industries.

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July 18, 2022
Limitation of Liability Language Tips and Significance

As a service provider, one of the most important clauses that should never be forgotten when negotiating a contract is Limitation of Liability Language.

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May 19, 2021
New International Services Team Launched

Doing business in foreign jurisdictions is more common than ever before and our new International Services team is here to help.

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March 10, 2021
Sub-Chapter 5 Bankruptcy – Top 10 Key Benefits

On February 19, 2020, Congress enacted the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (“SBRA”), also known as a Sub-Chapter 5 Bankruptcy, to help small businesses through the bankruptcy restructuring process. The intent of the Sub-Chapter 5 Bankruptcy is to provide small businesses with a faster and less expensive option for reorganizing under Chapter 11.

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February 26, 2021
Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization Summary

A Bankruptcy Chapter 11 Plan of Reorganization must meet certain standards before it can be approved by the court. Learn the elements that must be included in a plan of reorganization.

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January 26, 2021
Corporate Transparency Act Signals Seismic Shift for U.S. Business Owners

The Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (CTA) introduced in May 2019 was attached to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA) which passed the Senate on Friday, December 11, 2020 and has been sent to the President. The NDAA passed the Senate 84-13 and was approved by the House 355-78 making any veto likely ineffectual from stopping the bill’s ultimate passage into law.

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January 6, 2021
Important Update Regarding Selling New York Private Placements and Limited Offerings

Guidance for New York private placements and offerings being sold has been updated by the state Attorney General at the start of 2021 for all securities issuers

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October 25, 2019
Managing Tenant Notices and Estoppel Letters

Estoppel Letters and Tenant Notices are two tedious commercial real estate tasks that can take many costly hours to complete. Mismanagement can also delay commercial real estate transactions. These tasks require careful planning and coordination including the drafting, delivering, and tracking of such letters and notices.

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October 25, 2019
Successful Implementation of Legal Process Outsourcing

The legal industry continues to see year over year increases with the number of companies leveraging Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), or Alternative Legal Services (ALS) providers. Among them the “fractional” staffing model termed to define very senior, skilled, and tenured team members, however they are not employees. Typically, the fractional term has been reserved among various c-level positions. (CFO, CMO, CTO, etc.) Agile Legal is unique in that we bring this model to the legal services space where the c-suite, in-house legal teams, and outside counsel receive the following benefits: on-demand access to scale-able resources, improved competitiveness, and reduced legal costs up to 50%.

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October 13, 2019
Legal Process Outsourcing for CRE

Whether your transaction requires the review of an existing portfolio of contracts, leases, intellectual property or other documents, auditing and abstracting these documents is critical to understanding and managing risks, liabilities and deal value.

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August 27, 2019
LPO’s Strategic Utilization for CRE

Commercial Real Estate deals have many critical parts moving all at once leading up to the close, which transitions to the routine maintenance of the deal structure. Have you considered how and where Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), or an Alternative Legal Service (ALS) providers can provide capacity, efficiency, or spend reduction?

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