A centralized legal function established to protect the Group's legal interests and support its affiliated entities through controlled, mandate-based legal services.
The Department of Legal Affairs ("DOLA") is the Group's centralized legal department, formed to deliver consistent legal execution across transactions, disputes, corporate governance, regulatory interfaces, compliance oversight, internal investigations, and staff training. DOLA operates through documented workflows, controlled authority, and disciplined matter management to ensure legal quality, risk containment, and operational efficiency across the Group.
DOLA delivers legal services across four core practice areas.
Strategic management of claims, defenses, enforcement, and representation before courts and competent authorities.
Drafting, review, negotiation support, and closing coordination for commercial and corporate transactions.
Policy implementation, controls, regulatory readiness, and training programs aligned with Group standards.
Shareholder-directed and management-authorized internal investigations and employee-related legal matters.
The governance framework defining DOLA's purpose, scope of service, and operational controls.
DOLA exists to safeguard the Group's legal position and enable lawful, efficient execution of its operations. It serves as the centralized legal function for affiliated entities, maintaining consistent standards across legal workstreams while providing a clear framework for intake, escalation, approval, and documentation.
DOLA provides legal services exclusively to:
Where properly authorized, DOLA may represent affiliated entities in connection with:
DOLA may coordinate with external counsel when required by jurisdiction, licensing, court rules, or matter complexity, while retaining centralized oversight of scope, strategy, and reporting.
This website is not a public-facing legal services platform. DOLA does not accept instructions, engagements, or mandates from third parties through this portal.
Centralized legal support across the Group's core legal and risk functions, delivered through documented processes and standardized outputs.
Legal notices, case strategy memoranda, evidence packages, settlement term sheets, dispute risk assessments, claim trackers
Redlines, contract markups, risk memos, final execution versions, approval packs, closing checklists
Resolution packages, governance memoranda, delegation matrices, corporate records and registers support
Policies, training materials, compliance guidance notes, internal compliance checklists, reporting frameworks
Investigation plans, findings memoranda, remediation recommendations, restricted-access records
Disciplined control over risk, evidence, timelines, and strategy to protect the Group's position through early assessment, decisive action, and structured execution.
Factual and legal issue mapping, exposure evaluation (financial, operational, reputational), strengths/weaknesses analysis, recommended strategy, and timeline planning.
Legal notices, formal demands, settlement communications and releases, and negotiation frameworks preserving rights while controlling admissions.
Preservation notices and legal hold procedures, chain-of-custody controls, evidence compilation and indexing, and restricted access to sensitive matter files.
Procedural submissions and hearing preparations, representation strategy, documentation required by authorities, and coordination with licensed advocates or external counsel.
Scope definition and engagement terms, deliverables and reporting cadence, strategy alignment and escalation, cost controls and approvals.
Controlled, risk-aligned contracting ensuring commercial objectives are achieved while protecting the Group through proper allocation of liability and governance compliance.
Policy control, operational guidance, and structured training to prevent avoidable legal risk through clarity, discipline, and consistent internal standards.
Operating under strict confidentiality, restricted access, and controlled governance procedures. Investigations may be initiated by authorized shareholders, boards, or management.
Mandate verification, scope definition, and conflict checks.
Evidence preservation, restricted access, and stakeholder mapping.
Document review, witness interviews, timeline reconstruction.
Formal internal findings, conclusions, and risk classification.
Corrective action, policy updates, training, or escalation steps.
Investigation matters are treated as restricted-access, confidential workstreams. Unauthorized disclosure, interference, evidence destruction, or retaliatory conduct may constitute a breach of internal policy and may expose the relevant party to disciplinary action or further escalation.
Centralized intake channel for legal matters. Submissions are routed for triage, classification, and assignment. Each request is assigned a Matter ID and tracked.
Structured service standards designed to maintain responsiveness while protecting accuracy, confidentiality, and governance control.
Court deadlines, urgent filings, injunction risks, asset preservation, governmental escalation
Active dispute escalation, transaction deadlines, high-risk commercial issues
Standard contracting, advisory support, internal governance work
DOLA reserves the right to reclassify urgency where necessary to protect the Group's interests and maintain controlled allocation of legal resources. Timelines may vary based on complexity, evidentiary requirements, stakeholder dependencies, and court or regulatory deadlines.
DOLA functions as the Group's centralized legal service center. Legal services are allocated and charged back on an intercompany basis in accordance with internal governance approvals.
Allocation based on complexity and scope of legal matter
Charges based on recorded legal time
Standardized pricing for recurring deliverables
Regular charges for compliance and training services
Intercompany allocations are internal financial arrangements and are not public legal fees. Charges are recorded to support transparency, internal controls, and consistent legal service delivery across the Group.