Entrepreneurs are busy people, with limited budgets and often limited experience.

We work with start ups and growing businesses and understand the commercial and legal challenges and needs of growth businesses from initial survival to growth through to potential exit phases. Clients need solutions which meet their immediate needs but with a clear eye on the future as their business grows. Planning for outside investment and retaining key staff needs to start long before these may become reality.

Our experience and focus working with early stage businesses creates assurance and reduces costs.

How we work with start ups

Our focus on helping clients to understand what their legal and commercial priorities should be at the rfight point in their business growth and streamlined practice means legal fee savings for new business clients. As a result, every year we deal with hundreds of start ups and actively support the entrepreneurial sector in many ways including :-

• We run regular free commercial clinics at our office where anyone can drop by and ask us any question about starting up or early stage business.
• We talk to incubators and accelerators in their offices about latest developments the start ups can use to help their trade.
• We are members of the UK Business Angels Association and the EISA.
• Our team are continually trained in the skills and knowledge needed when dealing with an entrepreneurial business.

Specialist lawyers for entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs and growth businesses instruct us to handle a wide range of legal issues, often including :-

• Company formation and company secretarial support.
• Setting up the structure of the business to protect various shareholder interests. We balance the often competing needs of founders, investors and employee shareholders.
• Advising on commercial and technology agreements.
• Protecting, enforcing and maximisiming the value of your Intellectual Property Rights.   Guidance on protection of  business ideas, intellectual property and technology developed. Dealing with ownership aspects will make the business more saleable.
• Employment law.
• Joint Ventures
• Tax advice
• Corporate law such as shareholder agreements, employee shares and negotiating the terms, powers and restrictions for any private equity investment.
• Litigation and dispute resolution.
• Acquisitions and disposals.