The exposure lasts generations.
Your counsel process runs on email.
Industrial companies face complex multi-jurisdiction regulatory landscapes — environmental compliance, product safety, supply chain disputes, and trade regulation. When legacy chemical litigation can span decades and PFAS exposure is measured in billions, outside counsel governance has to be as rigorous as your safety protocols. Leading chemicals and industrial companies use PERSUIT to bring competitive discipline to every outside counsel engagement. Because when your regulatory exposure is global and your supply chain is under scrutiny, you can't manage legal spend on trust alone.
Three pressures
every industrials GC
is managing at once.
These aren't generic legal department problems. They're specific to chemicals and industrials — shaped by legacy liability exposure, multi-jurisdiction environmental regulation, and the supply chain complexity that comes with operating a global manufacturing enterprise.
PERSUIT was built for exactly this environment. Not adapted from a general procurement tool. Built for the regulatory depth, litigation scale, and cross-border complexity of a global industrial legal function.
PFAS and legacy chemical litigation
PFAS lawsuits, asbestos claims, Superfund liability, legacy contamination disputes. Chemicals companies face litigation that spans decades, involves thousands of plaintiffs, and costs billions. When a single chemical class can generate a generation of litigation, your outside counsel cost management has to be as durable as the exposure itself.
Supply chain disruption & trade compliance
Export controls, sanctions compliance, tariff disputes, force majeure claims, and supplier litigation. Industrial companies operate global supply chains under increasing geopolitical pressure. Managing trade counsel across dozens of jurisdictions without a structured process isn't governance — it's exposure.
Environmental remediation & regulatory enforcement
EPA enforcement actions, state environmental proceedings, REACH compliance, remediation obligations. Environmental regulatory work in the chemicals sector is perpetual and multi-jurisdictional. The Board will ask not just what you spent, but whether you can demonstrate a competitive, documented process for every firm you engaged.
Counsel management
built for exposure
that spans generations.
Most industrial legal functions manage outside counsel across chemical litigation, environmental compliance, trade disputes, and product safety. Far fewer have a system that connects counsel selection to cost management across all of them.
PERSUIT turns your outside counsel relationships into a managed, competitive process — with structured responses for every engagement, documented selection criteria, and real-time spend visibility across your entire litigation and compliance portfolio.
Coordinate chemical litigation counsel
PFAS, legacy contamination, mass tort — chemical litigation matters start with a defined scope, jurisdiction, and budget before a firm is engaged. PERSUIT enables structured competitive selection across your entire litigation portfolio, so counsel is chosen on experience and value, not just availability.
Manage trade & sanctions compliance
Export controls, sanctions screening, tariff disputes, and customs compliance require specialized counsel across every market you operate in. PERSUIT structures the selection and cost management of trade compliance work at global scale.
Govern environmental remediation costs
Environmental remediation and Superfund matters can run for decades. PERSUIT provides portfolio-wide cost visibility, billing rule enforcement, and firm performance tracking — so you know what you're spending, where, and whether it's competitive across every site and jurisdiction.
Track every engagement decision
Every firm selection — who was invited, who responded, why the winning firm was chosen — is documented in PERSUIT. The audit trail exists because it's built into the workflow, giving your Board and regulators the governance data they expect.
REACH compliance.
For the chemical teams
managing global safety.
EU REACH, TSCA compliance, GHS classification, and chemical safety regulation are creating an expanding category of legal and regulatory work for chemicals companies. Managing outside counsel for chemical safety compliance — from substance registration to enforcement defense — requires the same structured approach you apply to any other high-stakes legal matter.
PERSUIT enables chemicals and industrial legal teams to competitively source regulatory compliance counsel, manage environmental advisory engagements, and maintain full audit trails on every engagement — with the enterprise security documentation your EHS and procurement teams require.
Access the Trust Center →The matter types that shape your spend.
Outside counsel spend in chemicals and industrials is dominated by a small number of high-exposure matter categories. Here's how PERSUIT changes the economics of each one.
Environmental Remediation
Superfund proceedings, site remediation, contamination disputes, and regulatory cleanup orders. Environmental remediation matters span decades and involve coordinated counsel across multiple sites and jurisdictions. PERSUIT provides portfolio-wide cost visibility and firm performance tracking at scale.
Product Liability
PFAS litigation, asbestos claims, chemical exposure lawsuits, and consumer safety disputes. Product liability in the chemicals sector can involve thousands of plaintiffs and billions in exposure. PERSUIT structures the competitive process across your entire litigation portfolio.
Trade & Sanctions Compliance
Export controls, sanctions screening, tariff disputes, and customs enforcement. Industrial companies face increasing trade compliance complexity. PERSUIT's competitive process ensures your trade counsel is selected on expertise and value, with billing governance that keeps costs transparent.
Supply Chain Disputes
Force majeure claims, supplier litigation, raw material disputes, and contract enforcement across global supply chains. PERSUIT's structured responses mean scope and fees are agreed before work starts — with billing rules that enforce what was negotiated through resolution.
Security that passes
your review,
not just ours.
Chemicals and industrial companies run rigorous third-party vendor assessments — driven by trade secret protection, regulatory data sensitivity, and the operational security requirements of critical manufacturing. PERSUIT has passed the security reviews of major industrial enterprises. Here's what their teams found.
Information Security Management
Certified against the current version of the international ISMS standard. Independently audited. Not self-assessed.
Audited Controls
SOC 1 Type 2 attested. SOC 2 report available under NDA via the PERSUIT Trust Center — alongside pentest report, network diagram, and data flow documentation.
Cloud Security
Cloud Security Alliance STAR certified. Hosted on Google Cloud. SecurityScorecard: A. UpGuard: 865/950. Third-party scores, independently assigned.
SSO & Role-Based Permissions
SSO support. Role-based access controls. Full audit logging on every platform action. Your matter data is strictly isolated — no cross-customer data access, ever.
BC/DR & Data Governance
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery policy in place with tested contingency planning. Encryption policy, acceptable use policy, and full data chain of custody documentation available.
See what chemicals and industrials legal teams are achieving.
We'll show you what a PERSUIT demo looks like for a chemicals and industrials legal function — environmental remediation, product liability, trade compliance, and what the CFO conversation looks like when you have the data.