About Anderson PLC
How Anderson PLC Works
Anderson PLC builds strong, long-term counseling relationships with its clients through acquiring an extensive knowledge of their businesses: their sources of revenue and liabilities, their growth opportunities, the operational, reputational, legal and regulatory risks that are unique to those businesses, and their staffing and training requirements.
Anderson PLC also brings the highest level of professionalism, attention to detail, and commercial sensitivity to advising clients. The firm emphasizes the development and implementation of cost-effective risk-identification and risk-mitigation strategies intended to help clients achieve their business and financial objectives.
An important part of Anderson PLC’s approach includes regular communications between the firm and its clients – clients are encouraged to proactively seek advice and counseling on a regular basis to anticipate risks rather than be forced to react to them.
Why Clients Hire Anderson PLC
Clients hire Anderson PLC for its:
- Deep expertise in the laws and regulations to which its clients are subject;
- Extensive knowledge of the markets in which its clients compete;
- Practical and customized legal advice;
- Dedication to providing consistently outstanding service to its clients; and
- Flexible and competitive pricing practices.
Bentley Anderson, the principal of Anderson PLC, has almost three decades of experience as a practicing lawyer and legal executive in nationally prominent firms. He regularly speaks on issues arising in the firm's core practice areas and has published widely in legal journals and in industry publications.
Firm Clients and Services
Anderson PLC represents clients in the financial services and other sectors.
The firm’s financial services clients include:
- Investment advisers (including those managing individual high-net-worth and retail accounts, sub-advising funds, managing separately managed accounts, funds-of-one, and offering or supporting other structures and products);
- Hedge funds (including those implementing equity, relative value, credit, event, macro, multi-strategy, and algorithmic, low-latency, and other “automated” and quantitative / programmatic trading strategies);
- Proprietary trading funds;
- Registered funds;
- Other actively traded vehicles;
- Private equity funds;
- Venture capital funds;
- Broker-dealers;
- Commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisors; and
- Institutional investors.
When working with these clients, Anderson PLC provides legal advice and representation in relation to regulatory compliance; manager, sponsor, and fund formation and structuring; and trading, operational, governance, investigative and enforcement, commercial, and strategic transactional matters.
In addition to financial services, Anderson PLC’s clients include firms in the precision-engineering, management consulting, and insurance sectors.
For both financial services and non-financial services clients, the firm has extensive experience in relation to entity formation, financing (including regarding start-up capitalization and strategic investments), governance, operational, strategic transactional, and commercial contract matters. The firm represents both businesses and investors.
In more general terms, Anderson PLC works with clients who seek to grow their businesses in a sustainable way, but who view controlling costs paid to external law firms as a strategic priority.
The firm’s clients are thoughtful about legal and regulatory risks: they understand the dangers of relying on outdated risk-management practices developed in periods of little or less stringent regulation, and understand that what worked yesterday (or was never previously questioned or scrutinized) to manage risk may not be workable today.
Anderson PLC’s clients are also committed to protecting enterprise-value by investing in staffing, training, and policy-development to enable their businesses to mitigate the risks and potentially significant liabilities which draw adverse attention from investors and regulators.
Anderson PLC is Focused
Business-owners and their managers are becoming more sophisticated and knowledgeable about acquiring legal services, and in particular about extracting the greatest value from spending on law firms. Anderson PLC does not try to be “all things to all people.” Instead, the firm focuses on the two subject matter areas in which it has significant expertise: financial services and business law. This approach results in the highest-quality legal representation at reasonable and cost-effective rates.
Because of the value that Anderson PLC places on learning each client’s business, the firm limits the number of clients it represents at any time.
For clients in need of representation in areas of practice not handled by Anderson PLC, the firm maintains strong relationships with a national and international network of lawyers and law firms regarded as among the best in their respective practice areas.