Client journey
We understand the journey you’re on because we’re a founder-led venture too.
We’ve worked with a lot of high-growth ventures and advised them as they grow. From experience, here’s a typical journey our clients go through and the support they need along the way…
At Seven Legal, we specialise in providing stage-specific advice to high-growth ventures. Whether you’re just starting out and looking to raise funds or are moving towards exiting and need advice on getting the best deal for you and your staff, we can help.
Step 1: Launching & fundraising
Step 2: Scaling
Step 3: Exiting
Step 1: Launching & fundraising
It’s a process. Let us guide you through it.
It’s important to get things right from the start. Let us help you with setting up and registering your business. We’ll review the critical documents and agreements that your business is founded upon and ensure that you are in the best position to securely manage finances, shares and partnerships. We even offer company secretarial support – so you’ll never miss a Companies House filing deadline.Getting legal advice at this stage is about minimising your risks and correctly structuring your company for the journey ahead.
When it comes to raising funds, let us guide you through the process of funding rounds.
Our experienced team have advised hundreds of companies completing Seed to Series B rounds over several years of operating in the London early-stage market. We provide our clients with market knowledge and a sounding board when considering their funding options.
If you’re in the process of starting a business or raising funds, here are the areas we can support you with stage-specific legal advice:
- Incorporation documents
- Board minutes
- Stock transfer forms
- Personnel changes
- Confirmation statements
- Term sheets
- Company shareholders agreements
- Partnership agreements
- Joint venture agreements
- Seed and VC investment
- Advance subscriptions
- Venture debt
- Convertible loan notes
- Advice for fundraising and acquisition
- Compliance with the Companies Act obligations for directors.
- Maintenance of the company’s Statutory Register, including changes to the:
- Share Register
- Register of Directors and Secretaries
- PSC Registers
- Register of Charges
- Filing of annual Confirmation Statements.
- Filing of Amendments to the Companies Articles.
- Production of Share Certificates.
Get legal advice on both company set-up and funding rounds with our fundraising package, providing fixed-fee legal advice on all the areas listed here. Contact us to find out more.
Step 2: Scaling
The grind is real. Let us help.
As businesses grow so does the need for a suitable legal infrastructure to be put in place for each stage of growth. We can advise on the day to day requirements for your team as you scale.We work alongside our clients to understand their goals for the year ahead and identify the priorities to attain those goals.
At the scaling stage, businesses are often faced with challenges from many quarters – from how to protect your data and intellectual property to managing the intake of new staff and expanding your business’ commercial reach.
Our experienced lawyers can also provide advice to businesses operating in specialist areas like TV, media & entertainment.
Get stage-specific legal advice on all these areas and more with Seven Legal:
- Employment contracts
- Director service agreements
- Redundancies and restructures
- Organisational change
- Business transfers and TUPE
- HR Policies, procedures and handbooks
- Negotiated exits
- Support with internal processes
- Contractor agreements
- Sponsor licenses
- Subcontractor agreements
- EMI share schemes
- Non tax-advantaged share option schemes
- Employee share schemes
- Growth shares
- Hurdle shares
- Data protection
- Data security and breaches
- Data privacy notices
- Data protection audits
- GDPR compliance
- Cross-border data transfers
- Licensing
- Copyright
- Trademarks & trade names
- R&D
- Trade secrets & confidentiality
- Distribution & franchising
- Brand protection
- Sports marketing
- Sponsoring
- Database rights
- Online content
- Online platforms
- Digital business & e-commerce
- Social Media
- Gaming
- Web 3.0 & the Metaverse
- Regulatory regimes (UK & EU)
- Domain names
- IP commercialisation, protection & infringement
- Trademark registrations
- Infringement claims
- International registrations and searches
- Terms & conditions
- Contracts: drafting & review
- Service agreements
- Commission agreements
- Supply agreements
- Outsourcing
- Advertising and marketing
- Sponsorship
- E-commerce
- Joint ventures and partnerships
- Agency and distribution
- Terms of business
- Software development agreements
- Software licences
- IT outsourcing
- Managed services
- Service level agreements
- SaaS, IaaS and PaaS
- Cloud solutions
- Website terms and conditions
- App terms and conditions
- eCommerce terms and conditions
- Marketplace terms and conditions
- Online service terms and conditions
- Cookie policies
- Data breaches
- Privacy policies & notices
- Licensing and distribution
- Content development
- Content acquisition
- Term sheets & deal memos
- Talent services
- Quit claims
- Productions & co-productions
- Partnerships
- Digital content hosting & distribution
- VOD licensing and streaming
- Sponsorships
- Brand and digital activation
- Multi-party international transactions
- Music rights & publishing
- Image rights
- IP ownership
- IP protection & infringements
- TV format protection.
Get legal advice on our full range of scaling services with our scaling package, providing fixed-fee legal advice on all the areas listed here. Contact us to find out more.
Step 3: Exiting
You’ve (nearly) made it. Let’s get it over the line.
From our first interaction with clients, we take a long-term view and ask what is the end goal of the founding team. By having this in mind from the beginning, we can help founders to make the right decisions for their business at every stage of growth.When the time comes to sell your business, you’ll want to preserve as much value and control as possible. For this to happen, each step towards an exit must be considered long before arriving at an offer.
Our goal is to help you to exit on the best terms, whilst also looking after your employees. Once an offer is agreed upon, our focus is to execute on deals as efficiently as possible, while minimising downside risk post-completion for our clients.
Get legal advice from a team experienced in helping founders to successfully exit a business, we can provide advice on:
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Manangement buy outs and buy ins (MBO / MBI)
- Reorganisations and restructures
- Buyer and Seller due diligence
Get legal advice on our full range of exit services with our exiting package, providing fixed-fee legal advice on exits. Contact us to find out more.
High-impact legal advice that powers your progress
To discuss how timely legal advice could benefit your business at key stages of your company’s growth, get in touch – we’d be happy to help.