Guiding you and your business through the stages of startup, scaleup and sale
If you are an ambitious business founder you will need a startup lawyer who will support your ambition.
Not every commercial lawyer has the specific skills required for a startup business so choose your advisor carefully. It’s important that they can demonstrate that they understand the challenges faced by many successful startups including funding rounds and investment, rapid expansion, or employee share option scheme implementation.
When you choose a good startup lawyer, they will help you to build your business on solid legal foundations which is a crucial element of success. Your lawyer should have the skills to integrate their legal advice with both your short-term and long-term goals whatever they may be.
Whether you are building a business to sell or, creating your business to ensure a job for life the startup lawyers at JPP Law can help.
Our No Surprises on Fees Promise
As specialist startup lawyers we understand that spiralling legal costs are a major concern for startups, which is why we provide some legal services at a fixed price or capped price. We always offer a no surprises policy on fees – costs are always agreed in writing before work commences.
Please book a free introductory call which we can follow up with a fixed fee, no obligation quote.
Building your business on solid legal foundations is essential for success. Taking advice early is highly recommended and some businesses may appreciate our cost-effective startup business mentor scheme (available by application only).
Our startup lawyers can advise on what legal documents you are likely to need in the early stages (and which ones you don’t need) and can normally offer them in fixed fee legal document package.
A non-disclosure agreement, also known as a confidentiality agreement, is a contract that is intended to ensure that information shared between parties is kept confidential.
Taking your business to the next level is challenging but can be extremely exciting. With rapid growth comes risk so it’s important to have skilled advisors by your side.
Funding rounds and investment, taking on employees and the suitability of incentive schemes (EMI) or growth via joint ventures and collaboration are all potential developments which require a lawyer that will ensure your interests are protected.
To ensure your interests and your business are protected you need an experienced team advising you so the final terms are both fair and workable in the long term.
Investment agreements often have two functions. One is to document the terms on which the investment is made and the other is to set out the ongoing rights and responsibilities of the investors and the company.
Our solicitors have a lengthy questionnaire and checklist of all the documents that you will need to see before you even consider exchanging contracts on the deal.
There are very specific rules and regulations about EMI schemes. As specialists in all types of shares, we can guide you through the process to ensure the best possible outcomes for you and your staff.
Our combination of legal expertise and commercial insight enable us to create robust, transparent agreements that offer maximum protection and allow for long term growth.
We can help to ensure that all the necessary contracts, policies and documents are in place so both employer and employee are aware of their rights and obligations.
Many Founders build a business with the view to exit at the most opportune moment. When that moment occurs, its crucial to take advice on your exit strategy to ensure you minimise risk and maximise profit. If your startup vision is business exit from the outset and you work with the JPP startup lawyers, we will advise with your goal in mind, ensuring the business is legally prepared for sale.
Our corporate solicitors have decades of experience in all types of mergers and acquisitions and provide comprehensive legal advice throughout the process.
Our track record includes assisting with high profile, high value cases and we are renowned for our ability to take decisive, proactive steps in times of crisis.
“JPP Law were nothing short of amazing throughout the sale of our business.
The team guided us through the whole process and we really felt comfortable with them at the wheel. Their work and passionate ‘motorway’ negotiating means we are as protected as much as possible and have excellent terms. The due diligence questions and all the other stuff felt like an endless experience but JPP’s patience and guidance was invaluable.
The whole team were brilliant and a credit to each other.”
Mark Bonnici
We have engaged with JPP Law on multiple occasions, for matters relating to contract law, employment law, IP, as well as acquisitions. Unlike traditional firms, Mark and his team’s capability is quite broad and diverse, which is exactly what we require as an SME! Every single member of the JPP team we have worked with has been incredibly approachable, attentive, and have gone the extra mile to explain complex legal matters in simple terms, whilst mindful about costs involved. I would genuinely recommend them, and reach out, even if you have an existing relationship with a law firm.
Georgios Michalakidis Technical Director, Blue Tea Software
“JPP Law helped us with the acquisition of our company. A super friendly team who help explain M&A legal language in simple terms, always responsive on emails and very impressed with the full team being on hand during the early hours of the morning during the final signing of the deal. I would highly recommend JPP and will certainly use them again in the future.”
Mark Byrne Digital 22
”We cannot thank you enough for the hard work, patience, humour, diplomacy and professional yet highly personal approach with which you handled a most challenging negotiation for us.”
Sylvie Verinder Tumblebug Ltd
”Mark Glenister and his team were recommended to us when we needed legal support for our first investment round. Throughout the process the team at JPP Law made a complex process seem simple. They were incredibly supportive, responsive, accessible and they exceeded our expectations on timelines continuously. If you are looking for a law firm that feels like an extension of your team, wants you to succeed and is fully behind you, then JPP Law are the legal team for you.”
Martin O’Donnell DebtStream
”JPP helped with a number of complex operations related to our business, including a merger between our Spanish and our British businesses, the issuing of share options for our team and more importantly, the sale of our company in 2021. The quality of the work was impeccable, as well as the practical advising and the personal and close treatment. JPP get the job done and will go above and beyond to do it on a timely manner, making you relaxed about it along the way thanks to their professionalism and advising capability.”
Felipe Polo Co-Founder of GuideSmiths
”When you’re a founder you don’t want robotic advice and clock watchers. You need legal support that understands how much your business means personally and how the right advice can make a huge difference to how mergers, shareholder agreements and legal matters can impact you one, two or five years down the line. This experience and expertise, coupled with a caring approach from JPP had a beneficial and positive impact for the GuideSmiths team.”
Glenn O’Grady Former CEO of GuideSmiths
”Lawyers can be perceived as impersonal and dispassionate but this wasn’t the case with JPP. Mark Glenister the team are caring people by nature and it pervades throughout the JPP team. JPP Law supported GuideSmiths from soon after it was founded in 2014 right through to completion of the sale of the company in 2021. Throughout our dealings with them I knew with absolute confidence that JPP had the best interests of GuideSmiths and the founders at heart at all times.”
Glenn O’Grady Former CEO of GuideSmiths
“There is a moment within every start-up company when you need a lawyer.
Ideally someone pragmatic, insightful and responsive. Thank heavens we found Mark. He combines sound legal advice and commercial awareness with a priceless ability to reply to an email or take a call there and then. He has kept us on the straight and narrow, saved us time and money. On top of that is a thoroughly nice person to deal with. That puts him in the top echelon of legal advisors.”
Peter Lilley Co-Founder at iGeolise Ltd
What to Expect from an Introductory Call
We invite you to book an introductory call with one of our startup lawyers. During the call we will listen to your requirements and likely provide some initial free advice. If you do need further legal advice we will follow up the call with a written, no obligation quote for you to consider.
The call will also provide you with the opportunity to assess how the JPP Law team operate. In terms of communication style, we aim to explain complex legal concepts in simple terms and try to be proactive with our advice – even during a free introductory call. We believe it’s important to have a good professional rapport with your startup lawyer which is why the introductory call is so invaluable.
The team at JPP Law can advise any startup business however we have developed niche expertise in a few sectors that sometimes require a little more expertise.
