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Our business start-up lawyers will give you the full power of our legal support. Specialist legal advice for start-ups and new business.
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Launch your start-up with a solid legal foundation
Starting your new business is an exciting time and there are so many things to do to get your venture off the ground and running smoothly. We can help you start off on the right foot by giving you a solid legal foundation for setting up your business. Thinking about the business structure, who are the decision makers? What are the relationships with your partners, suppliers and staff? Do you have a good shareholder or partnership agreement in place? How you set up your business will affect how it will run in the future.
Managing relationships with lenders, investors and shareholders
We can help your approach to bringing investment into the business, either through lenders, shareholders or other investors. We can help you define these relationships and ensure your agreements are solid and work in the interests of all parties for a strong and stable business relationship.
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Running your venture with early stage business legal advice
Once you have set up and laid out the structure of your business, its goals and objectives, you have to ensure it runs smoothly. You will have to keep up to speed with your cash flow, or consider how much tax you will pay.
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Our business start-ups lawyers can support and advise you on a range of issues including:
- setting up as a sole trader
- forming a partnership
- Setting up a limited company
- setting up a limited liability partnership
- liability
- risk
- assets
- regulations
- share option schemes
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Tees is a top-tier Legal 500 firm offering joined-up legal and financial services. We have our own independent financial advisers (IFAs), who work closely with our lawyers.
Our advisers provide holistic financial planning, and as we are not connected to any one provider, we can offer a whole-of-market approach for the range of products we can advise on. We can also give independent advice for a whole range of insurance products to protect you and your family. Our IFAs are regulated and authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, which means we’re accountable for the advice we give.
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Our business start-up solicitors provide practical legal advice to help you establish your business on a strong foundation. From choosing the right business structure and setting up your company to preparing essential legal documents, we help you navigate the early stages with confidence and plan for future growth.
We have offices across Cambridgeshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, but we can help you wherever you are in England and Wales.
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