Legal · Risk · Compliance

Make legal perform
like a business
function.

Legal, risk, and compliance leaders are expected to operate like a business function, without the visibility or control to do it.

Swiftwater gives you control over demand, spend, and performance, so your function runs with the discipline of a true business unit.

Reduce legal spend 10–30% Reclaim 25%+ team capacity Full visibility in 90 days
Legal Performance
Q1 2026
Overview
Spend
Matters
Spend YTD
$4.2M
of $5.8M budget
Active Matters
47
↑ 3 closing this week
Spend by Practice
Employment 42%
Commercial 31%
IP & Patents 18%
Regulatory 9%
Outside counsel: 12 invoices pending
Rate renewals: 2 firms overdue
Savings identified: $340K this quarter

Americas  ·  EMEA  ·  APAC  ·  Legal Operations  ·  Enterprise Legal Management  ·  Contract Lifecycle Management  ·  Risk & Compliance  ·  AI & Automation

Client Outcomes

* Representative of outcomes Swiftwater has helped clients achieve. Results vary by engagement scope and context.

€11M

Cost Savings (Global Manufacturing Transformation)

100%

User Adoption of Legal Service Request & Front Door Portal (Global Company, 90K Employees)

10%

Legal Spend Reduction (eBilling & Outside Counsel Management)

20%

Cost Avoidance (AI-Powered Invoice and Spend Analysis)

15%

Cost Savings (Outside Counsel Rate Negotiation Program)

21%

Max Reduction in External R&C Spend (Risk & Compliance Advisory)

$40B+

In Regulated Organizations Served (R&C Practice)

Our Methodology

One firm. The complete capability stack.

01

Advise

Strategic advisory for GCs and executive leadership. Transformation roadmaps and operating model redesign.

02

Build

ELM, CLM, and eBilling implementation. 3× Onit Level 4 certified practitioners. Platforms that get adopted.

03

Change

Structured change management embedded in every implementation. The reason your technology investment sticks.

04

Measure

Analytics that turn legal data into board-level insight. KPIs that speak the language of the business.

05

Run

Managed services for legal operations. Senior-grade delivery when you need to borrow the team, not build one.

06

Govern

Program delivery and implementation governance. Scope, risk, and schedule managed by a seasoned PMO Director.

07

Innovate

The Swiftwater AI Lab. Applied AI and automation across every practice, led by Imran Jaswal.

For General Counsel & Legal Operations Leaders

Advisory and implementation across legal spend, technology, contracts, AI, IP, and managed services.

01

Reduce Legal Spend

eBilling, rate governance, outside counsel optimization.

02

Implement Legal Technology

ELM, CLM, and eBilling platforms for real adoption.

03

Manage Contracts at Scale

CLM, intake standardization, obligation management.

04

Transform with AI

Applied AI deployments with provable ROI.

05

IP Management

Portfolio, cost optimization, IP litigation management.

06

Managed Legal Services

Senior SME coverage across litigation, IP, and ELM.


For CROs, CCOs, CFOs & Boards

Mirat Dave leads the practice, working exclusively with CROs, CCOs, CFOs, COOs, and Boards across pharma, finance, energy, and defense.

Enterprise Risk & Compliance

Strategic advisory and operational programs: risk assessments, compliance design, function transformation, and cost reduction programs that transform risk and compliance into a business-enabling function.

GGrowth

Programs that accelerate business decisions, not slow them.

MMargin

8–21% reduction in external R&C spend.

AAssets

Investigations and controls that protect asset value and board confidence.

PPurpose

Compliance culture that reduces incident frequency and regulatory exposure.


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Product Offering

Corporate Investigations

Independent, privileged, and defensible investigations for boards, audit committees, and regulatory matters, including a purpose-built investigations management platform developed in partnership with Onit. Track matters end-to-end, generate reports, monitor outcomes, and surface real-time dashboards.


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The Swiftwater AI Lab Applied AI research & deployment for legal departments
The Innovation Practice Coming Soon

Introducing the Swiftwater AI Lab.

Led by Imran Jaswal, the AI Lab is an output-generating practice delivering applied AI research, readiness assessments, published reports, and deployed solutions for legal departments ready to move beyond the pilot stage.

Detailed practice page launching shortly. Check back soon.

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Journal & Insights

What we’re thinking about.

Practitioner perspectives on legal operations, technology adoption, risk strategy, and the trends shaping in-house legal departments.

Delivery Partners & Certified Integrations

Next Steps

Ready to see what your legal department is really capable of?

Start with a 30-minute discovery call. A senior Swiftwater practitioner, not a business development executive, will be on the call.

Book a Discovery Call

No commitment required. No sales pitch. Just a senior practitioner on the call.