Start-Ups and Growth Business

Starting a business, or growing one quickly, throws up its own legal questions: the right structure, your first contracts, your first employees, and how you bring in investment if you need it. We help you get the foundations right early, so they hold as the business grows.

Getting started

Choosing the right structure, whether that’s a sole trader, partnership, limited company or LLP, shapes how you’re taxed, how much personal risk you carry, and how easily you can bring in investors or partners later. We talk you through the options and help you set the business up properly from day one.

Growing fast

As the business grows, the legal questions change: your first commercial lease, your first employment contracts, bringing on a co-founder or investor, or putting a shareholder agreement in place before you need one. We work alongside you at each of these points, not just when something’s gone wrong.

Bringing in investment

If you’re raising money from investors, we advise on the terms, the paperwork, and what you’re actually giving away in exchange for the funding.

The decisions you make early, about structure, ownership and contracts, are the ones that are hardest to undo later.