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The Royal Method™

Three phases. One framework. The same standard at every step.

The Royal Method is the firm's proprietary engagement framework. Every engagement begins with Phase 1 Assessment. From there, the matter may proceed to Phase 2 Strategy, Phase 3 Implementation, or both, depending on what the assessment reveals.

Not every matter requires all three phases. Phase 1 is always first; later phases are determined by the assessment and may proceed separately or together.

The Standard

Not a retainer in search of a problem.

Material legal issues for cross-border families, founders, and enterprises usually live at the intersection of legal, tax, governance, and ownership decisions. The Royal Method is designed to find them in writing, under privilege, before strategy or implementation begins.

Royal does not take on engagements without a Phase 1 Assessment. The discipline is the firm's product.

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Privilege first.

Every assessment is structured to attach attorney work-product and attorney–client privilege to the underlying analysis before any structural decision is made.

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Sequencing matters.

Structural, tax, and IP decisions must be made in the right order. Wrong sequence forecloses later options and converts reversible exposure into permanent loss.

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One framework, every matter.

The same Phase 1 → Phase 2 → Phase 3 architecture governs an estate, a founder structure, an IP portfolio, or a multi-jurisdictional restructuring.

Phase 1 Assessment

A privileged legal and tax assessment.

Identify the relevant facts, risks, options, trade-offs, sequencing, and path forward. A privileged assessment that identifies key risks and trade-offs, clarifies your options, and provides a decision map.

DeliverablePrivileged analysis & decision map
FeeFlat legal fee based on scope

Phase 1 reviews five dimensions of legal, tax, and structural exposure. Each finding is documented, prioritized, and connected to the decisions it informs. Deliverables include privileged legal and tax analysis, key risks and priority issues, options and material trade-offs, a decision map, recommended sequencing, defined next steps, and confidence indicators where appropriate. For matters requiring further written analysis, the deliverable may include a comprehensive privileged legal and tax memorandum.

  • Tax exposure Domestic and cross-border, including reporting posture, treaty positioning, and prior-filing review where relevant.
  • Structure Entities, trusts, holding vehicles, beneficial ownership, governance, and continuity. Where the existing architecture forecloses options, the assessment says so in writing.
  • Intellectual property Feasibility, viability, ownership integrity, and IP valuation exposure across jurisdictions. Coordinated through Royal's IP of counsel and technical specialists.
  • Controversy Examination risk, prior filings, trade-secret and confidentiality integrity, and litigation exposure. Anticipates how positions will be tested by counterparties, the IRS, and acquirers.
  • Sequencing The order in which structural, tax, and IP decisions must be made to avoid foreclosing later options.
Phase 2 Strategy

Develop the strategy.

Develop the legal, tax, governance, structural, or quantitative strategy where additional analysis is needed. A written roadmap supported by quantitative modeling and scenario analysis, with co-counsel and specialists engaged where jurisdiction or discipline requires.

DeliverableStrategy memorandum & model
CoordinationCo-counsel as required

Phase 2 converts the prioritized findings from Phase 1 into an executable strategy. The work is quantitative where the question is quantitative — modeling under multiple assumptions, scenario-testing structural choices, and documenting the rationale that supports each recommendation.

  • Modeling Tax, valuation, and continuity scenarios under multiple assumptions, with explicit sensitivity to law and treaty changes.
  • Scenario analysis Comparison of structural alternatives across U.S. and non-U.S. tax, regulatory, and governance regimes.
  • Coordination Aligned counsel admitted in the relevant jurisdiction or credentialed in the relevant discipline are engaged into the strategy as needed.
  • Output A written strategy memorandum and supporting model that frames the decision Royal recommends, the structures that implement it, and the sequence in which they should be executed.
20%

Phase 1 fee credited toward Phase 2 within 30 days.

Where Phase 2 follows Phase 1 within thirty days, Royal applies a 20% credit of the Phase 1 fee to the Phase 2 engagement. The credit is automatic on engagement letter execution and reflects the firm's commitment that the assessment work informs — and is not duplicated by — the strategy that follows.

Phase 3 Implementation

Execute the selected path.

Execute the selected path through Royal Law and its affiliated counsel or specialists, as appropriate, with ongoing trustee, governance, and reporting oversight.

DeliverableExecuted structure & oversight
CoordinationAligned counsel by jurisdiction

Implementation is where most law firms stop coordinating and start executing in parallel. Royal continues to coordinate through the firm's framework — drafting and execution are delegated to aligned counsel admitted in the relevant jurisdiction, but standards, sequencing, and final review remain with the firm.

  • Drafting & execution Documents are drafted by counsel admitted in the relevant jurisdiction and reviewed against the strategy memorandum from Phase 2.
  • Trustee & governance Ongoing oversight of trustee actions, governance bodies, and reporting obligations where the firm continues as counsel of record.
  • Reporting Coordination of cross-border reporting obligations (FBAR, FATCA, foreign-trust reporting, transfer-pricing, and analogous regimes) where applicable.
  • Continuity Engagements continue per matter or under structured oversight as the client's position, structure, or jurisdiction profile evolves.
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In Practice The same standard applied at every step, on every matter.
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Engage

Every legal engagement begins with Phase 1 Assessment.

A privileged legal and tax assessment that identifies key risks and trade-offs, clarifies your options, and provides a decision map for the path forward. The scope and flat fee are determined after initial review based on the nature of the matter.

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