A team knows the law. A boardroom knows the numbers.
Neither has the angle.
TARKA is the strategy layer above both — where cross-border SPVs, deal structure, and AI compliance are stress-tested before they cost you.
The Premise
Senior partners spend three to five hours briefing on a new matter. Associates spend days on cross-jurisdictional research that ages by the time it lands. Pre-litigation assessment runs on instinct, not intelligence. AI-driven research gives every firm the same output. None of that is strategy. Strategy is what happens after the research. That is the layer TARKA occupies.
Every TARKA engagement is staffed across four seats. The composition deployed depends on the format. Standard Strategy Intelligence mandates draw on the lower three. Apex engagements bring the Founding Counsel personally, on top of the full team.
Every principal begins with a Read. Three formats follow, one standard throughout. Apex is documented separately, below. Fees and turnaround windows are stated as a matter of transparency.
The Strategic Read is a one-time first engagement. The full USD 2,500 is credited against your first Case Strategy Brief commissioned within thirty days. One per principal.
Founding Counsel Engagement. A small number of mandates each year.
The Apex format is documented for matters where the stakes are existential. Sovereign-facing exposure. Board-level inflection points. Nine-figure transactions. Regulatory situations where the institution itself is at risk.
The full four-seat team deploys, led personally by Founding Counsel. The Memorandum is authored under his hand. The briefing is led from his chair. The Roadmap is signed in his name.
0.5% of matter value on transactional mandates, floor USD 250,000 on the USD 50M+ band. Or a fixed strategic mandate from USD 150,000 with monthly retainer from USD 25,000. Apex slots are extended by invitation, or by warm introduction from existing principals.