The contract does not end when it is signed
We assume the governance of the entire contract portfolio of the entity or of the group. We do not deliver an isolated opinion: we install a control system with owners, cadence, evidence and metrics, and we answer for its operation.
That is where the obligation begins, and with it the risk nobody is measuring.
Every transaction a company enters into begins with an agreement. Almost none is administered as one. It is signed, filed, and nobody reads it again until it becomes a problem: an automatic renewal already in effect, an accrued contractual penalty, a supplier published on the listing of taxpayers with presumptively non-existent transactions, a transaction without demonstrable materiality, a termination without a file.
Breach rarely originates in the legal department: it arises in procurement that did not require the instrument, in treasury that paid without support, in human resources that hired without a file. The metric is therefore allocated by responsible area and consolidated into a single index for the board.
What happens when the portfolio is not governed.
Operating without cover.
Expired instruments still being performed, annexes that were never signed, services rendered outside the contracted scope. The invoice exists; the legal title does not.
Lack of substance.
Deductions supported only by a tax receipt and a generic contract, with no deliverable, no documented business purpose and no traceability of the consideration.
One-off screening.
The counterparty was checked on the day of onboarding and never again. Restricted-party lists, tax authority listings and judicial records are updated every month; the file is not.
Eight modules, a single control system.
Each module operates independently and can be contracted separately; their value multiplies when they work as a single chain of command over the same repository of instruments. Move around the dial to see each one.
A board does not read contracts. It reads one number.
Contract failure is rarely legal at origin. It begins in a purchase made without a document, a delivery outside the agreed window, a payment released without support, a hire without a file. So the metric is distributed by responsible area and consolidated into a single index for the board.
Consolidated Contract Compliance Index
It weights every enforceable obligation of the period by the economic value and the criticality of the instrument that contains it, so that a breach in an essential contract counts for more than ten minor deviations elsewhere.
Targets are calibrated in Phase 1 against the entity's own baseline. The figures shown are the AMERICA LEGAL® house standard for comparable portfolios.
One contract involves twelve areas. Each answers for its own, measured.
The board receives a consolidated index. Each area receives the part it actually controls, with an explicit target and a named owner. That is what turns a legal service into a management matter.
Legal and Contract Management
- Contracting cycle, request to signature12 business days or less
- Operating without a live instrumentZero cases
Procurement and Supply
- Spend executed under a live contract90% or above
- Suppliers with current screening in the cycle100%
Finance and Treasury
- Payments with contractual support and reconciled invoice100%
- Service-level penalties and credits recovered80% of what is claimable
Accounting
- Transactions with a complete materiality file98% or above
- Items without documentary supportNone beyond 60 days
Tax
- Transactions with a documented business purpose100%
- Exposure to counterparties listed under article 69-BZero
Commercial and Sales
- Sales with an instrument signed before first delivery100%
- Client signature turnaround10 days or less
Operations and Projects
- Contractual milestones met on time95% or above
- Work performed outside the contracted scopeZero
Human Resources
- Headcount with a current signed individual contract100%
- Confidentiality and intellectual property undertakings signed100%
Information Technology and Security
- Instruments with a preservation record and time stamp100%
- Availability of the document vault99.5% or above
Compliance and Anti-Money Laundering
- Counterparties with list screening up to date100%
- Controlling beneficiary identified and documented100%
Internal Audit
- Instruments sampled each quarter10% of the portfolio
- Findings remediated within term90% or above
General Management and the Board
- Consolidated Contract Compliance Index95% or above
- Estimated contingency against constituted reserveCoverage of 1.0x or above
Each area reports on the frequency set for it, against a baseline measured in the first weeks of work. No target is adopted before that baseline exists.
From the filing cabinet to the dashboard in one quarter.
Not a promise of eventual improvement. A dated route, with a deliverable at the close of every phase, so that the first quarter already produces a decision instead of a diagnosis.
The periods overlap by design: configuration begins before normalisation closes, to shorten the time to first result.
What is delivered, and how often, once in steady state
Contract governance report
Indicators by area, portfolio traffic light, counterparty verification results and critical dates falling in the period.
Counterparty verification
Restricted lists, tax authority listings and legal background, with an alert sheet for each finding.
Compliance committee
Session with General Management: findings, contingencies, remediation and renewal decisions.
Substance audit
Compliance and economic substance report, integrating the transfer pricing study.
You do not have to take our word for how a portfolio is governed. Look at it.
Contract governance is not run on spreadsheets. It runs on our own dashboard. This is its entry screen, loaded with a demonstration portfolio of eight instruments.
No matter is resolved within a single discipline.
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