The DYP Advisors Advantage

Why should you partner with DYP Advisors?

Another day without the most appropriate and the most cost effective legal counsel is another day your business is not performing at its best.

Douglas Park is the trusted advisor for the executive who wants to position their company for sustainable success. Doug is a great listener and asks intelligent questions to move ideas forward. He is known for his intellect. However, it is his ability to navigate the intersection of strategy and law that makes his professional service such a sought after expertise in corporate governance and complex business transactions.

- Fay Feeney, Risk4Good, Hermosa Beach, California

You enjoy two critical advantages from working with us:

1. GAIN THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF BUSINESS MINDED LEGAL ADVICE.

“No one in the business cares about the legal problem – unless it’s framed as a business problem.”
- Anonymous in-house counsel, Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting, 2011
 
“Lawyers are deal breakers, not deal makers.”
- Robert Kraft, Owner of the New England Patriots
 
“A lot of lawyers are naysayers and they can crush a deal by over-lawyering.”
- Clive Cummis, Partner, Sills Cummis & Gross, P.C., New Jersey
 
Enjoy a competitive advantage in every area, including legal, against your competitors. That requires legal counsel who is trained AND experienced in business.

Professor Constance Bagley of the Yale School of Management explains in Winning Legally the requirements for legal strategy to contribute to competitive advantage:

[T]he legal strategy must be integral to and inseparable from the business strategy… It also requires the lawyers to learn about the business so that they can participate actively in each stage of strategy formulation and execution…[and] lawyers must sufficiently understand the business model and its execution.  (pages 5 and 6)

Few attorneys have a sophisticated grasp of the strategic and operational issues that companies face, and how legal strategy impacts business activities. Mark McCormack, founder of International Management Group, famously wrote in What They Don’t Teach You at Harvard Business School that most lawyers don’t understand business.

With our expertise in strategy, organizational behavior, and competitive dynamics, the DYP Advisors advantage is built on business informed legal services -- Legally Informed Strategy. 

Legal Counsel vs. Business informed Legal Counsel from DYP Advisors

Legal counsel DYP Advisors
Types of problems Legal problems Business problems with legal factors of varying importance
Approach to problems Find problems Solve problems for competitive advantage
Legal risk Minimize legal risk Balance legal risk and business risk
Business goals Business goals are a second priority to legal problems, or they never even enter the equation Legal advice advances business goals
End Result The result of regular legal counsel is a legal outcome The result of the DYP Advisors’ business informed legal counsel is competitive advantage

Have conversations with us about legal strategy today to ensure that your business is competing most effectively. With our combined business and legal experience, we can add value through our services. DYP Advisors provides business informed legal counsel—Legally Informed Strategy—that gives you an edge over the competition.

Partnering with DYP Advisors ensures that you perform at your very best.

We retained Douglas because of his exceptional reputation as someone who understands the realities of international business. His performance exceeded our expectations. Douglas’ brilliant intellect, combined with his practical understanding of law and business, led to a successful completion of a difficult transaction. Douglas speaks in a language that everyone can understand, and he delivers valuable services.

- Jay Lee, New York

2.  KEEP LEGAL EXPENDITURES EFFICIENT AND COST EFFECTIVE.

Tackle the ordinary and extraordinary legal demands upon your business at a lower overall cost than you could with other legal advisors.

a. BEAT IN-HOUSE OR LARGE FIRM COSTS.  

The median legal budget for large US companies is $24 million.

We are efficient and cost effective because of our lean staffing and strong comprehension of your concerns. Only focused and experienced experts work on your matters.

We offer flexible billing arrangements to help you budget your legal expenditures.

Dollar for dollar, our business informed legal services are worth more to you than what you pay for them. Our services are worth more to you than what you would get for paying another law firm or in-house counsel the same amount. We create value for our clients.

b. BEAT LITIGATION EXPENSES.  

Avoid the costliest legal battles—litigation—the most serious of which could shut down your business. Litigation quickly becomes a costly, time consuming quagmire.

  • 40% of a US company’s legal budget is spent on litigation.
  • The Fortune 500 spends an astonishing 33% of its after-tax profits on litigation costs.
  • Attorney’s fees can be much greater than damages, so litigation is often an irrational course of action.

We help you reduce the risk of litigation by using the law to solve problems. We approach legal disputes with a strategic business mindset. We craft transactions and agreements for you that anticipate points of conflict and liability. We work to ensure that compliance and socially responsible behavior become strategic assets rather than competitive obstacles.

The result: You avoid the crushing expenses of litigation.

Our areas of emphasis are:

DYP Advisors is located in Palo Alto, California in the heart of Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. We are available day in and day out to service the success of its clients. Say hello, share your situation, and ask us your question. We look forward to helping you move through your legal and strategic challenges.

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