Entrepreneurs & Founders

Building and running a business can bring legal, commercial and personal considerations together. We support entrepreneurs and founders with the decisions, transactions, challenges and opportunities that arise as their businesses and wider interests develop.

Discuss Your Matter

Supporting you and your business

The interests of a founder and their business are often closely connected. Ownership, commercial relationships, investment, growth and strategic decisions can each have wider implications. We take a connected view, helping you understand what matters, consider your options and bring together the support required.

Understand the wider picture

We start by understanding you, the business, its ownership and where you are trying to go. This helps identify the immediate priorities, wider considerations and how decisions affecting the business may connect with your own interests.

Shape the right approach

We help consider the legal, commercial, strategic and practical dimensions of the matter, assess the available options and determine an appropriate way forward, drawing on specialist expertise where required.

Coordinate what is required

Where matters involve solicitors, accountants, tax advisers, investors, corporate advisers or other specialists, we can provide continuity across the process, helping coordinate advisers, information, documentation and next steps around your objectives.

How we can help

From establishing and developing a business to investment, transactions, disputes and important strategic decisions, we provide practical support shaped around you, your business and what you are looking to achieve.

Business & Corporate Matters

Supporting founders with company structures, ownership, governance, shareholder matters, commercial arrangements and other issues arising through the development and operation of a business.

Growth, Investment & Transactions

Supporting investment, fundraising, acquisitions, disposals and other transactions through preparation, due diligence, commercial support and coordination with authorised and specialist advisers where required.

Commercial & Strategic Decisions

Helping founders navigate important decisions, opportunities and periods of change by considering the legal, commercial and strategic factors that may influence the way forward.

Founder & Complex Matters

Supporting situations where business and personal interests intersect, including disputes, ownership issues, investments and other complex matters requiring different capabilities or professional advisers to work together.