Dorset Capital typically takes an active role in its portfolio companies. Examples include assisting with organizational, structuring, legal, financing, operational, marketing, and scaling strategies and issues. Goals of management participation are organizing the business to attract financing, collaborations, and investor interest, providing limited in-house counsel support to prepare the company for a third party due diligence review, increase efficiency dealing with outside counsel, and to a certain common level reduce legal expenses. Participation with a company can take a variety of forms. Examples are a consulting role, acting as a member of an advisory board, or assuming a more formal role on the board of directors.