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WilliamDevineEsquire offers global innovators a new model for recognizing and capitalizing on legal, regulatory and enterprise risks.

The model is a catalyst.  It helps people recognize not only the often overlooked risks that lie beyond an enterprise's legal duties, but also the opportunities that accompany those risks.

WDE empowers the enterprise to create a more valuable economic performance and become a more durable company.

WDE empowers the innovator to move into a larger role as a global economic leader.

Learn more about how this practice transforms enterprises and careers at Board and Management.

C L I E N T  R E A C T I O N

"Your advice was invaluable … you really cut to the heart of the matter quickly and cleanly ... We're really pleased to have this locked up and I'm personally grateful for your creativity, your wise counsel, and your legal counsel.”

L A T E S T  P R O J E C T S

Prepare Risk Recognition and Regulatory Assessment for global education enterprise.

Prepare fifty-state Risk Recognition and Regulatory Assessment for European daily fantasy sports enterprise considering entry into North American market.

T R E N D — I N V E S T O R S, I N N O V A T I O N  A N D  R I S K

Investors want companies they fund to possess signficant innovation, leadership and risk management skills.  Of the investors responding to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Investor Survey in 2017:

•  95% report that innovation skills are somewhat or very important for companies. 

•  92% report that leadership skills are somewhat or very important.

•  89% report that risk management skills are somewhat or very important.

Two takeaways:

First, investor demand for risk management expertise is nothing new:  94% of investors responding to the PwC Investor Survey in 2013 reported that risk management expertise is the most important skill a director can offer, ahead of operational, financial and industry expertise.

Second, going forward, wise leaders will make a strong effort to monitor the interplay between enterprise innovation and regulatory risk.

L A T E S T  F I L M

L A T E S T  S O U N D

L A T E S T  B L O G  P O S T S

Airbnb v. San Francisco:  A Nuanced View

Days of Our Activist Lives

A Live-stream Lesson in Risk Recognition

Regulatory Vacuums + Risk

A Cautionary Fantasy