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Starting a business Getting the right legal advice and support from the outset can help put your business on a sure footing and avoid costly pitfalls later. Read more Running a business As your business develops, new challenges and opportunities arise. Read more Raising funds Finding and securing new investment for your business comes with its own unique challenges. Read more Protecting wealth Once you have generated your wealth there are things to consider to ensure it is preserved for whatever you want to ultimately use it for. Read more Investing Successful entrepreneurs often want to support younger entrepreneurs and their businesses, both through direct investment and by adding value through mentoring. Read more Selling or Exiting a Business There will inevitably come a time where it makes sense to sell or exit your business. This may be for personal reasons, because it makes sense for the future of the business, or a bit of both. Read more View more

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Early-stage investment term sheet templates A good term sheet can help ensure a deal proceeds smoothly and quickly flush out whether there is, after all, a deal to be done between the parties. Read more Launchpad Launchpad is our cost-effective legal solution for start-ups. Successful applicants receive documents to assist their funding round including Investment Agreements, Articles of Association and supporting documents. Read more Lease Budgeting Guide Leasing your first office? Our Lease Budgeting Guide sets out everything you will need to consider from insurance, SDLT, survey fees and telecommunications from the first year, annually and the final year. Read more Entrepreneur Law: An A-Z guide Every industry has its own language and shorthand. Our A-Z guide is designed to assist entrepreneurial clients in getting to grips with this new terminology by translating it into plain English. Read more Could a pre-nuptial agreement protect your business? The case recently reported as AH v BH [2024] EWGC 125 concerned an English pre-nuptial agreement intended to protect the entrepreneur husband's pre-marital wealth, primarily his business. Family Senior Associate, Katie Male details the result. Read more The UK’s bid to attract AI innovators Immigration Partner, Zoe Jacob examines how recent policy direction and visa reforms are strengthening the UK’s appeal to international AI talent, founders and fast‑growing tech businesses. Read more Policy certainty and entrepreneurial growth Private Wealth Partner, Dom Rothbarth considers why entrepreneurial ambition remains strong even as confidence in UK policy has weakened. He explores how tax, international mobility and long‑term policy direction are influencing these decisions. Read more Cutting the IHT bill without losing control of your business Senior Associate, James Woods‑Davison explores how using the expanded £2.5m BPR allowance can ease IHT exposure but also reshape governance and minority shareholder dynamics. Read more View more

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