Adrián Lagos

Brings a legal and business perspective to disputes, negotiations, and complex executive decisions.

Organizes facts, contracts, interests, and options to protect the organization’s position and support clear decisions.

Technical capabilities

Litigation strategy

Structures the theory of the case, claims, defenses, evidence, burdens of proof, interim measures, costs, and resolution scenarios.

Negotiation and dispute resolution

Compares litigation, arbitration, mediation, settlement, and escalation by value, time, precedent, and reputation.

M&A and complex transactions

Integrates due diligence, structuring, risk allocation, contracts, conditions precedent, governance, and integration.

Executive leadership and legal crises

Translates legal exposure into decisions for boards, owners, and management, with pathways, privileges, controls, and accountable owners.

Education and applied judgment

What each discipline contributes to a consequential decision.

Law, finance, leadership, and negotiation help prepare options that protect a position and make their business consequences visible.

Contractual position

Law and business practice

Organizes obligations, contracts, interests, and options so a business decision accounts for the position the organization needs to protect.

In the decision: When an owner, board, or management team needs to understand the consequences of committing to, renegotiating, or defending a position.

Law, finance, and transactions

MSc in Law and Finance · University of Oxford

Integrates law, finance, valuation, and corporate transactions when preparing options leadership can compare.

In the decision: When price, risk allocation, structure, and governance must be considered together before taking a transactional position.

Strategy and leadership

MBA · INSEAD

Connects strategy, finance, operations, and leadership to understand the business consequences of a complex decision.

In the decision: When senior leadership needs to compare an option in terms of business continuity, value, execution, and reputation.

Disputes and agreements

Negotiation and dispute resolution

Enables comparison of litigation, negotiation, mediation, or settlement by time, exposure, precedent, and business continuity.

In the decision: When a dispute requires deciding which position to protect and which resolution is proportionate to its consequences.

When it adds value

Criteria connected to a situation that matters.

Especially useful when a dispute, contract, or transaction calls for organizing facts, interests, evidence, and options before committing to a position.

Key deliverables

01Legal strategy and theory of the case
02Exposure, evidence, and scenario matrix
03Due diligence and transaction architecture
04Decision brief for the board and negotiation

Guiding questions

The contribution begins with questions that help clarify the decision.

01
Which position should we protect, and with what evidence?
02
What is the total cost of litigating, negotiating, or settling?
03
Which clause, precedent, or action could shift the balance?

Next step

Is this decision worth a conversation?

When a contract, dispute, or transaction combines legal exposure and business consequences, framing allows positions to be compared before committing to a resolution.

In our first conversation, we clarify with you what is at stake and agree on the scope, responsibilities, and capabilities the decision requires.

Let’s discuss this decision Meet the full team