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A capital-raising exercise often begins with ambition, but it ends in documentation. Between those two points lies a legal process that is far more consequential than it first appears. Founders tend to think in terms of valuation, investor interest, and momentum. Boards think in terms of timing, governance, and strategy. Counsel, if involved properly, thinks in terms of disclosure, structure, authority, compliance, and future defensibility. That is because capital markets do

A serious arbitration does not begin with the notice of invocation. It begins much earlier, at the stage when the contract is drafted, negotiated, signed, and stored away with the assumption that it will probably never need to be used. That is where the real strength of the dispute resolution process is determined. In commercial practice, arbitration is often described as a faster, private, and more specialised alternative to courtroom litigation. That description is broadly