📖 The basics of Juristic Structure

Juristic Structure is more than just a diagramming tool. It is a complete structuring solution designed for lawyers and advisors, created with a deep understanding of how legal professionals actually work.

While we often describe it as a tool for making group charts, it does far more. Built by lawyers, for lawyers, it simplifies how you create, share and export structures – turning hours of PowerPoint edits into minutes of intelligent diagramming.

So what makes Juristic Structure best-in-class? To highlight just a few features:

• You can multi-edit more than one slide at a time with a feature called "Mirror Mode", eliminating the need for timely and repetitive edits.

• You can import company data directly from public registers, automatically generating full ownership charts.

• You can export to PowerPoint (with attachable lines), Word or PDF in firm-branded style, with fully editable shapes.

• You can attach documents to entities, making your structure diagram a living case file rather than just a picture.

• You can generate literal documentation or develiverables through our data layer, for example tax step plans, DD reports, or cap tables with dilution calculations.

These capabilities, developed with input from top law firms and corporate advisors, make Juristic Structure a tool that doesn’t just show the structure – it becomes part of your workflow.

In this guide, you will learn how to use the base features of Juristic Structure.

How to use the base features of Juristic Structure

1. Setting up your workspace

Just like in Timeline, your structures live inside Groups and Cases.

Before you create a structuring whiteboard, you’ll need to place it within a Group and a Case. Think of a Group as a folder and a Case as a specific matter.

• On the dashboard, click Groups → Create new. Give it a meaningful name, for example “M&A Projects” or “Client: Nordic Dispute”.
• Inside the Group, click Create new Case. This could be “Acquisition of Company Y” or “Litigation – Smith v. Jones”.
• Finally, within the Case, click Create new Structure.

You can also get started directly from the Dashboard / Overview. Simply click + Structure and the system creates a draft whiteboard. It works like when you open a Word document, but it is not yet saved on your computer.

2. Building your first diagram

At the heart of Structure are elements and relationships.

• Drag an element (such as a company, branch, or partnership) onto the canvas.

• Rename it and adjust its style or colour.

• Add details like jurisdiction, registration number, or notes.

To connect elements with lines:

• Drag from the connection dot on one entity to another - or anywhere on the element or canvas. It's just the starting point that has to be a connection dot.

• Choose a relationship type, such as ownership, agreement, or loan. In the "Relationship" menu, you can pre-select

• Label it with percentages or text (“100%”, “JV agreement”, “Loan facility”).

Example:

HoldCo owns 100% of OpCo. OpCo has a shareholder agreement with JV PartnerCo. In a few clicks, you can show ownership, legal agreements, and contractual obligations clearly on one chart.

3. Automating with data imports

Instead of drawing everything from scratch, you can use built-in automation:

• Registry imports: Pull data directly from Danish, Swedish, Norwegian or Finnish company registers to generate ownership structures.

• Excel imports: Upload a cap table or our Excel template to build a chart instantly.

• Flags and markers: Add country flags, or registration numbers.

Example:
Typing “Lego A/S” will auto-import the Danish registry structure. With one click you have a clean, accurate group chart including subsidiaries and ownership percentages.

4. Export for presentations and deliverables

Your chart isn’t trapped in the platform. You can export in multiple formats, each tailored to a different need.

• PowerPoint: The most common export. Charts come out as fully editable slides, ideal for presentations and client updates. If your firm’s branding is set up, fonts, colours, and logos are applied automatically. You can even export step-plans that build structures slide by slide.

• Word: Export diagrams directly into legal opinions, reports, or transaction documents. With the Word plug-in, you can refresh the chart in place if the structure changes later.

• PDF: Create locked, final versions for closing binders or regulatory filings. Useful when you need a fixed snapshot of the structure.

• Excel: Generate a tabular export with entities, ownership percentages and notes, ideal for large matters or due diligence processes.

Example:
A restructuring team can sketch the proposed group structure, export it into PowerPoint for a partner meeting, and then embed the same chart into the draft restructuring opinion in Word. If the client changes the plan, the chart is refreshed with one click.

5. Manage and refine your structure

Once your diagram is drafted, Structure makes it easy to keep it accurate and client-ready.

• Quick draw: Automatically add new subsidiaries or parent entities without fiddling with shapes. Simply click the connector dot the number of times you want subsidiaries. If you have selected a relationship type to use by default, it will override the default selection.

• MidCo builder: Insert a new holding company between existing layers instantly – no redrawing needed. Simply hold down the Shift key and click on the relatio

• Colour coding: Apply colours to highlight categories, such as joint ventures in orange, financing entities in green, and dormant companies in grey.

• Templates: Start from a standard governance or group chart template, so you don’t have to build common layouts from scratch.

• Collaboration: Work together in real time with colleagues, like Google Docs. You can also share with clients – either as view-only or with editing rights – through a secure link.

• Document links: Attach key files (shareholder agreements, registrations, resolutions) directly to the entities they belong to. This turns the chart into a single point of reference for the entire matter.

Example:
Your partner tells you, “We need another MidCo between Parent and Sub.” Instead of shifting boxes in PowerPoint, you hold Shift, click once, and a perfectly aligned MidCo is inserted. At the same time, you attach the new shareholder agreement to the MidCo box so the document is always one click away.