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Startups and Early Stage Business Advice

If you’re an early stage business, our team can provide expert startup legal advice, ensuring that you have all the support that you need to maximise your chances of success.

If you’re an early stage business, our team can provide expert startup legal advice, ensuring that you have all the support that you need to maximise your chances of success.

At Anderson Strathern we have much experience working with startups and early stage ventures. We can assist you to navigate your legal responsibilities, safeguard your interests, and reach your commercial goals.

We have in-depth expertise and knowledge across a wide range of commercial and corporate law areas, putting us in the perfect position to support you.

Our expert team can help businesses in various ways, including:

  • Starting a new business
  • Company structuring
  • Corporate governance
  • Business policies and procedures
  • Employment & HR
  • Business premises
  • Corporate finance
  • IP and technology
  • Data protection

Get in touch for startups and early stage business legal advice

If you’re looking for startup legal advice, get in touch with our expert business start-up lawyers today.

Contact us on 0131 270 7700, visit our offices in EdinburghGlasgowEast LothianShetland or Orkney, or fill in our enquiry form to request a call back.

How our startup lawyers can help you

Starting a new business

When you are starting and growing your business, our team can provide expert business startup advice, catered to your specific needs.

We will start by gaining an in-depth understanding of your early stage business, allowing us to align our support with your vision and goals.

We realise that taking care of all the relevant legal aspects can feel overwhelming. Our team can handle these matters for you, whilst paying close attention to your preferences and strategies.

Company structuring

Choosing the most suitable structure is incredibly important for a business, whether you decide to go with a sole trader, a partnership, a limited liability partnership or a limited company.

As a new business grows, it may benefit from changing its tax structure, for instance, to improve tax efficiency, financial protection, or attract investors.

Our experts can advise you on the best structure to suit your needs, and answer any questions you have. As well as this, we can help you to draw up and/or review the legal documents you will need, such as shareholder agreements, or articles of association.

For more information about our business startup advice service, please contact Anderson Strathern.

Corporate Governance

Strong corporate governance is essential for businesses to ensure compliance, build stakeholder trust, and drive sustainable success. Our corporate team provides expert advice on corporate governance, board responsibilities and compliance. We can help early stage businesses align with best practices, including risk management, ethical standards, and transparency.

We can provide guidance on developing governance policies and offer tailored solutions to meet the unique needs of your business. Our team’s in-depth understanding of governance laws and principles can help create frameworks to allow your business to operate effectively and responsibly.

Business policies and procedures

If your early stage venture needs support with policies and procedures, our expert team can assist you. With the help of our employment team you can develop or review policies for HR, health and safety, disciplinary and grievances, anti-discrimination, and more.

With the right policies and procedures in place, you’ll promote the smooth running of your business, making certain that all is well structured and organised. You’ll also protect your interests, safeguard your employees, and ensure compliance with the relevant laws and regulations.

Employment & HR

Our team can help start up and early stage businesses to navigate employment and HR. Specifically, we can help you to review your employment contracts and workplace policies, making certain that these are fit for purpose and legally compliant.

We can also provide guidance on recruitment, ensuring that your processes follow employment law regulations, and are working best for your company.

With our support, you’ll ensure to protect your interests, reducing the chances of facing employment law disputes in the future.

Business premises

At Anderson Strathern, our lawyers for early stage companies can offer clients legal advice on buying or leasing commercial property. Our commercial real estate team can help you to negotiate your lease agreements, making certain that the terms suit your needs, covering matters such as exit strategies, renewal, rent and maintenance. With our support, you can ensure your premises suits your needs and your plans for growth.

If you are interested in accessing business startup advice, contact our specialist team today.

Corporate finance

Our startup business lawyers can help early-stage businesses with a wide range of corporate finance matters, including helping you to structure deals.

Our team can assist with areas such as drafting investment agreements, providing bespoke legal advice along the way. Additionally, we can help you by supporting you to create appropriate equity and share capital structures.

To learn more about how we can support you with this area, please contact our lawyers for business startups.

IP and technology

Our specialists at Anderson Strathern can support your business with IP and technology, helping you to safeguard your intellectual property, for example, copyrights, patents and trademarks. We can provide personalised advice on IP strategy, assist with registration, as well as helping you to protect your valuable IP assets.

We can also support you to draft and review technology based contracts that you may require, for instance, software development agreements, or licensing agreements.

Data protection

At Anderson Strathern, we can help you to make certain that your business complies with relevant data protection laws, such as GDPR. We can provide advice on data transfer, storage and collection, as well as supporting you to draft or review policies for data privacy.

To access business startup advice today, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Why choose Anderson Strathern for your business?

At Anderson Strathern, we have extensive experience working with a wide range of companies, including early stage ventures that are keen to grow. We have an in-depth understanding of the key responsibilities, risks and concerns, that startups and early stage businesses face.

Our team can help you to navigate every area of priority, whilst paying close attention to your goals and unique requirements. When you work with us, you’ll receive proactive support to ensure that you protect your interests at every stage.

With ample experience across all areas of commercial and corporate law, we can support you to protect your business, and access your potential for growth.

If you are interested in startup legal advice, our team would be more than happy to answer any questions that you have.

Get in touch for startups and early stage business legal advice

If you’re looking for startup legal advice, get in touch with our expert business startup lawyers today.

Contact us on 0131 270 7700, visit our offices in EdinburghGlasgowEast LothianShetland or Orkney, or fill in our enquiry form to request a call back.

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