Triggers found in time
The clauses and obligations that react to your departure identified while amendment and negotiation are still available.
Pre-move exposure audit
Before you relocate, find out what the move sets in motion.
A pre-move exposure audit from Aun & Co.: contracts, guarantees, disputes and tax-relevant facts reviewed before relocation makes them harder to fix.
A relocation pulls a thread through every legal arrangement you have: contracts with change-of-residence implications, personal guarantees that outlive departure, disputes that mature the moment you are harder to reach, corporate roles that create presence where you no longer want it. The pre-move audit is a systematic sweep of that landscape while everything is still cheap to fix — a ranked inventory of what the move triggers, what it worsens, and what must be resolved before the flight, not after.
The work spans
- Contract sweep: clauses that react to your change of residence
- Guarantees and security surviving your departure
- Open and latent disputes: what matures when you leave
- Corporate roles and signatures creating ongoing presence
- Ranked findings with a fix-before-departure sequence
- A relocation date exists and nobody has read your contracts against it.
- You signed personal guarantees over the years and cannot list them from memory.
- A dormant dispute would gain leverage the day you become the party abroad.
- You hold director roles and signing rights that will keep you legally present after you have physically left.
The audit reads your legal life as the move will stress it: every contract checked for residence, notice and termination triggers; every guarantee traced to its release conditions; every simmering friction re-priced for the leverage shift your departure hands the other side. Findings are ranked by a single criterion — what becomes materially harder or costlier to resolve after the move — and sequenced into a pre-departure work plan with owners and dates.
04 · What you get
Leverage read honestly
Each open friction re-priced for how the move shifts the balance — the disputes to settle now are the ones your departure strengthens for the other side.
A dated work plan
Findings converted into a fix sequence against the relocation calendar, so the audit ends in completed actions rather than a filed report.
A typical engagement: months before a planned relocation, the audit surfaces a personal guarantee with no expiry, a supplier contract terminable on change of residence, and a receivable dispute that weakens once the client is abroad. All three are resolved before departure; the move itself becomes legally uneventful.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
What does a pre-move legal audit cover?
The arrangements a relocation stresses: contracts with residence-sensitive clauses, personal guarantees and security, open or latent disputes, corporate roles and signing rights, and the documentary facts residence tests will later read. The output is a ranked, dated fix list.
Why resolve disputes before relocating rather than after?
Because departure moves leverage: a party abroad is costlier to serve, slower to appear and easier to outlast, and adversaries price that in. The same dispute routinely settles cheaper before the move than after it — timing is the discount.
How long before the move should the audit run?
Three to six months out is the practical window — early enough that guarantees can be renegotiated and frictions settled, late enough that the picture is final. The audit itself takes two to three weeks; the fixes consume the remaining runway.