Professional Cooperation
We work alongside advisers, not around them.
Much of our work reaches us through law firms, accountants and compliance consultants. The client relationship stays where it belongs, and the boundary between advice and control documentation stays visible.
Professional firms we support.
In each case the division of responsibility is agreed in writing before work begins, so nobody is left assuming the other side covered something.
Law firms
Where a matter requires control documentation, AML file remediation or governance records assembled to an evidential standard, we work to the instructing firm’s scope. Legal advice and legal judgement remain with the practice.
Accountants and auditors
We support the administrative and control-documentation layer around an engagement without providing assurance opinions. Where our work touches an audit client, independence is assessed before we accept.
Compliance consultants
Additional review capacity for file testing, evidence assembly and remediation tracking on engagements where the consultant retains the client relationship and the advisory position.
Corporate advisers
Transaction and restructuring advisers who need beneficial ownership evidence, governance records or control documentation organised for counterparty and lender scrutiny.
Three ways the work can be structured.
The right structure depends on who needs to hold the client relationship and whose engagement letter the deliverable sits under.
Referral
You introduce the client and we contract directly with them. You stay informed to the extent the client authorises, and your own engagement remains separate.
Suits advisers who want the work handled but not carried on their own engagement letter.
Subcontract
We work under your engagement letter and to your scope. Deliverables are provided to you, and the client relationship remains entirely yours.
Suits firms that need review or documentation capacity inside an engagement they already own.
Parallel appointment
Both firms are separately engaged by the same client on defined, non-overlapping scopes, with an agreed coordination point to prevent duplication or gaps.
Suits matters where legal advice and control documentation need to progress at the same time.
What you can hold us to.
Referral relationships depend on predictable behaviour. These are the commitments we make to the introducing firm.
- We do not approach your client for adjacent work without your knowledge.
- We work to the scope you set and raise scope changes with you, not around you.
- We do not represent our work as legal advice, audit or assurance.
- Conflicts and independence are assessed before we accept an introduction.
- Confidentiality obligations to your client are honoured as if they were our own.
- Where we are the wrong fit, we say so early rather than absorb the work.
What we do not offer.
We keep referral arrangements deliberately plain. Anything that could compromise a professional obligation on either side is declined.
- Commission or fee-sharing arrangements
- Reciprocal referral obligations
- White-labelled opinions or sign-off
- Any work that would misstate who performed it
BlackCores & Partners does not provide legal advice, statutory audit, tax advice, investment advice or regulated financial advice. Where a matter requires it, the instructing firm or an appropriately authorised adviser retains that role.
Read how we scope and reportDiscuss a client matter in confidence.
Tell us the scope you need covered and how you want the engagement structured. We will confirm fit and conflicts before anything proceeds.