Raising Investment for Startups

Raising investment can be both exciting and challenging. Our team of startup lawyers specialise in acting for startups and high growth companies on fundraises, so whether it’s your first business or you are a serial entrepreneur, our team of startup lawyers can help you navigate the investment process.

We regularly advise startups and founders receiving investment in an initial friends and family funding round, a seed funding round or a Series A/Series B funding round. We also advise on receiving investment by way of an ASA (an advanced subscription agreement) or under a convertible loan note, as opposed to the traditional equity round.

Although we are not sector-specific, we tend to advise tech or tech-enabled businesses.

We take a pragmatic approach, will act quickly and we are well used to helping founders overcome problems that crop up along the way.  Whether its queries on the financial promotion rules, agreeing heads of terms, going through investor due diligence, negotiating the investment documentation, we can help.

We understand that you will need flexible and practical advice and so we don’t sell expensive startup “packs” that get you nowhere, we won’t over complicate legal documents and we won’t baffle you with jargon. You will be given our commercial view on the proposed investment terms and we will do all we can to ensure that your needs are considered and your position is protected. We will then work with you to take your business to the next stage.

We understand that you have a limited budget and many conflicting priorities, and we always try and provide fixed or capped fee quotes.

As a full service firm, as well as advising on investment, we can also to coordinate responses to wider pressing questions on commercials, real estate or employment related matters which impact your startup on a day-to-day basis. Click here to get in touch with our Startup Investments team.