Business Start-ups

Our business start-up lawyers will give you the full power of our legal support. Specialist legal advice for start-ups and new business.

Get your new business off the ground with our start-up legal experts

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.

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.

The team at Tees is exceptional when it comes to corporate and commercial. Their tenacity and understanding of our business were excellent, as well as their understanding of a commercial deal that was not always straightforward.

Our expertise

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

Legal and financial advice

Our corporate solicitors are experienced in all aspects of business law. Our experts in company formations can talk you through the advantages and disadvantages of various possible business structures and other aspects of starting-up.

Tees is a top-tier Legal 500 firm. Working with us, you can have the confidence of having an experienced full service team behind you.

We also have in-house independent financial advisers who work closely with our lawyers to deliver all the advice you need for your business.

We're here to help

If you’d like to meet one of our business start-up experts for a confidential, no obligation chat, please get in touch.

We have offices across Cambridgeshire, Essex and Hertfordshire, but we can help you wherever you are in England and Wales.

The financial services provided on this page are by Tees Financial Limited, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority

Our legal services are authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

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Frequently asked questions

The answers to many of your questions can be found here, please get in touch for further information.

I have been told my property has development potential. What do I do?

If you’ve been contacted by a developer or a land promoter regarding a potential development to your property, you may wish to consider granting an option agreement or a promotion agreement. An option agreement is made between the landowner and the developer, where it is intended that the developer will apply for planning permission and requires an option to buy the property. A land promotion agreement is used where a developer agrees to apply for planning permission and will market the property for sale on the open market once planning permission has been obtained. This is usually in return for a proportion of the net sale proceeds. The law on this is very complex and you will need specialist advice. 

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If you’d like to meet one of our experts for a confidential, no obligation chat, please get in touch.

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