Contract Risk Management Services-

Establishing and implementing a process of regular assessment and monitoring of contractual partnerships is essential to control costs, manage risks, and contribute to the value derived from these arrangements.

• Risk-based monitoring of these relationships can be very complex and time consuming, often requiring access to subject matter expertise, as well as commitment to regular monitoring of the contractual relationships
• Inadequate attention results in process inefficiency, control breakdowns, and incremental costs associated with “patchwork” arrangements
• Due to continuing efforts to establish adequate governance structures and maintain transparency, companies realize that these relationships play a critical role to their internal controls and risk framework

Market Insights

• Significant increase of patents, copyrights, and trademarks and the subsequent licensing of the Intellectual Property (IP)
• Increasing focus of Procurement Sourcing departments to maximize cost savings and enhance business relationships
• Outsourcing of non-core core processes (e.g. contract manufacturing, distribution of product, etc.)
• Growing number of franchise businesses and business affiliations (joint ventures and partnerships)
• Increasing trend toward globalization
• SOX and other regulatory requirements

Types of Projects

SOAProjects provides license compliance, contract management, royalty inspections, channel compliance, fraud investigation, FCPA compliance and litigation support services to a broad spectrum of clients including start-ups to billion dollar corporations.