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Commercially-minded, cost-effective legal advice for early stage businesses
When your business is growing fast, it’s easy to get side-tracked by legal hurdles
Growing pains are natural, but in order for your business to develop to the next stage, you need peace of mind that the legal side of things is all in order.
Whether you’re hiring new team members, putting in place a new share option plan, preparing for a funding round, or negotiating with new suppliers or customers, investing in the right legal advice early on can save you a lot of time, expense, and headache further down the line.
What we do
Funding rounds
We can support you through every step of the fundraising process, from negotiating heads of terms and drafting shareholders’ agreements, to managing investor relationships and allocating shares.
Commercial agreements
From contract reviews, NDAs and data protection policies, to T&Cs, SaaS agreements and supply agreements, we’ll help you scale your interactions with customers, suppliers and other stakeholders.
Employment
Whether you’re making your first hire or building an experienced team, we can put in place the right employment or consultancy agreements, advise on performance issues and dismissals, and negotiate settlements if relationships later break down.
Employee share schemes
We can help you design, implement and manage the right equity incentive scheme for attracting and retaining top talent, from EMI option schemes and growth shares, to fully-bespoke management incentive schemes.
Debt Finance
We advise lenders, borrowers and other market participants on all forms of debt financings. We also act for banks, debt funds and other financial institutions to structure and negotiate transactions.
Data Protection
We have specialist experience advising individuals and businesses on all types of data protection issues, including confidentiality, cyber-security and privacy issues to freedom of information.
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE & REGULATORY ISSUES
We work closely with corporate clients and organisations to assist them with corporate governance and regulatory issues. We help you audit your compliance, evaluate disclosure issues, investigate alleged wrongdoing and implement new rules, regulations and governance statutes.
"Gretchen is one of those rare persons with a legal background who is both extremely knowledgeable and at the same time captures the essence of no-nonsense legal advice that fast growing start-ups need. In Capdesk we've needed to understand certain aspects of UK company law and share option schemes in great detail. Lennon Legal has been a fundamental source of legal knowledge when building our product. I can highly recommend collaborating with Gretchen and her team!"
MIKKEL BOJE
CPO and Co-Founder, Capdesk
So why choose us?
We’ve been in your shoes
Collectively our team has launched and grown a number of successful businesses, and our clients love that we’re founders, just like them.
We make the complex stuff simple
We cut through the jargon to provide clear and actionable advice tailored to your business. It’s never a “one-size-fits-all” approach!
We’re transparent and cost-effective
We know you don’t have endless legal budget, and we also know expert legal advice doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. We provide clear fee estimates at the outset and keep you updated along the way, so no nasty surprises!
So why choose us?
We’ve been in your shoes
Collectively our team has launched and grown a number of successful businesses, and our clients love that we’re founders, just like them.
We make the complex stuff simple
We cut through the jargon to provide clear and actionable advice tailored to your business. It’s never a “one-size-fits-all” approach!
We’re transparent and cost-effective
We know you don’t have endless legal budget, and we also know expert legal advice doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. We provide clear fee estimates at the outset and keep you updated along the way, so no nasty surprises!
Lennon Legal helped guide us through the legals of our largest investment round, they gave fantastic advice for a startup negotiating with a large corporate investor. I would highly recommend them if you are going into a new funding round!
Agnes Czako
Co-founder, Managing Director, Airex
Where are you in the cycle?
Every stage of your company’s journey will come with its own legal challenges and opportunities.
We help you navigate these every step of the way.
If it sounds like we might be the right fit for you, we’d love to hear from you!
Simply get in touch by hitting the button below. We’ll get back to you asap to arrange a brief no-obligation chat about your business and goals, and how we can help you along the way.