Published: March 13, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Before founding StructureFlow, I spent eight years as a corporate lawyer at Slaughter and May and Farrer & Co, advising on highly complex, high-stakes transactions.
These were multi-billion-pound deals involving layers of entities across multiple jurisdictions, with ownership, control and risk constantly shifting as negotiations evolved.
To manage that complexity, we relied on structure charts, timelines and diagrams. They were essential. They imposed order on something that would otherwise be overwhelming. But they were also static and slow to build. Worse, every time a deal changed, someone had to rebuild the picture.
Documents and diagrams made things readable, but not truly navigable. They flattened dynamic relationships into snapshots. As structures evolved, those snapshots quickly became outdated.
That’s where risk crept in. Not because anyone was careless, but because the tools weren’t built for constantly shifting complexity.