Legal support
for expanding businesses

As your business becomes more structured, we help make sure your internal processes and documents evolve with you.

We’ll keep you aligned with current legislation and best practice, so your company structure remains strong and compliant.

• Advising on directors’ duties and responsibilities under the Companies Act 2006
• Corporate housekeeping: statutory registers, board/shareholder resolutions, Companies House filings
• Updating Articles of Association to reflect evolving share structures and governance models
• Shareholder management, including amending shareholder agreements as needed

Now’s the time to review your existing contracts, terms and conditions, and confidentiality agreements to ensure they still support your business goals.

• Reviewing and updating:
  • Customer and supplier contracts
  • Website and online terms and conditions
  • Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements (NDAs)
• Standardising and optimising contract workflows to reduce commercial risk

We’ll help you refresh staff contracts, policies, and handbooks to reflect current employment law and your evolving workplace culture.

• Regularly updating employment contracts, policies, and staff handbooks
• Ensuring alignment with evolving UK employment law (e.g., flexible work, diversity and inclusion, AI in recruitment)
• Staff restructuring and internal promotions (employment law compliance)

We’ll draft and negotiate new supplier and customer contracts that reflect your growth and protect your interests.

• Drafting and negotiating:
  • New customer and supplier agreements (UK and international)
  • Framework agreements, MSAs, and Statements of Works (SOWs)
  • Licensing, franchising, and distribution contracts for market entry
• Advising on compliance and legal considerations in new territories

Thinking about acquiring another business or forming a new partnership? We’ll guide you through due diligence, shareholder agreements, and SPAs with clear, commercial advice.

• Structuring and advising on business acquisitions:
  • Due diligence (legal, commercial, HR, IP, and risk) [link to
  • Drafting and negotiating Sale and Purchase Agreements (SPAs)
  • Disclosure letter management, warranties, and indemnities
• Formalising or renegotiating partnerships and joint ventures
• Updating or drafting new shareholder agreements aligned with investment or ownership changes
• Group restructurings and cross-entity coordination (e.g., inter-company loans, reorganisations)

We advise on loan agreements and corporate finance options to help fund your next move. Always working with our own tax advisor or your tax team of choice.

• Structuring and implementing:
  • Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) schemes – full support from valuation to HMRC notifications
  • Growth shares and bespoke long-term incentive plans (LTIPs)
• Advice on exit provisions, leaver clauses, and share option vesting schedules

• Drafting and negotiating:
• Loan agreements (secured and unsecured)
• Facility agreements and inter-creditor arrangements
• Advising on:
• Personal guarantees, debentures, and security documentation
• Venture debt, convertible notes, and alternative finance options

• Drafting contracts for senior hires and incentivisation schemes
• Advising on international employment structures for new markets
• Employment due diligence in acquisitions or restructuring