Business Start-Ups

How We Can Help Your Start-Up Succeed

Launching a new business involves making critical decisions that can impact your company’s future. Our experienced team of solicitors offers expert guidance on a wide range of start-up legal matters, including:

Business Structure Advice: We help you work with your account to choose the right legal structure for your start-up, whether it’s a sole trader, partnership, limited liability partnership (LLP), or limited company, to align with your goals and protect your interests.
Company Formation and Registration: We handle all aspects of company formation, including registering your business with Companies House, drafting articles of association, and preparing shareholder agreements.
Contracts and Agreements: Our solicitors draft and review key contracts, such as employment contracts, supplier agreements, and terms of business, to ensure they are legally sound and tailored to your needs.
Intellectual Property Protection: We can point you in the right direction for advice on protecting your brand, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, helping you secure your business assets from the outset.
Compliance and Regulation: We provide guidance on compliance with relevant laws and regulations, ensuring your business operates within the legal framework and avoids costly penalties.
Funding and Investment: We assist with preparing legal documents for securing funding, negotiating investment terms, and ensuring that your business interests are protected.

Why Choose Lawson West Solicitors?

Experienced Start-Up Support: With years of experience in supporting start-ups, our solicitors understand the unique challenges new businesses face and offer practical, actionable advice.
Tailored Legal Solutions: We provide personalised legal services that are specifically designed to meet the needs of your start-up, ensuring you receive the most relevant and effective support.
Dedicated Team: Our approachable and responsive team is committed to helping your business succeed from day one. We are here to answer your questions and provide ongoing legal support as your business grows.

Get Started Today

Turn your business idea into a reality with the help of Lawson West Solicitors. Contact us today to discuss how we can support your start-up journey.

Rebecca Beswick

How Can Lawson West Help You?

Starting and growing a business takes real dedication. Our knowledgeable Corporate Commercial team works seamlessly alongside business owners, directors, sole traders and entrepreneurs to realise their business ambitions.

From initial partnership or shareholder agreements to company acquisition or disposal, we support every transaction along the way. You can rely on our dependable experience of what not to do and likely obstacles along the way, to determine the best course of action. We know the pitfalls and delays that could jeopardise your aspirations and we have strong relationships with finance and accounting professionals to support your transaction or deal to achieve the best outcome.

Our dependable team has a talent for understanding your needs and we look forward to helping you. Contact Us.

Expertise

Mergers, Acquisitions & Disposals

Management Buy-Outs and Buy-Ins

Business Restructuring

Employee Ownership

Joint Venture Agreements

Shareholder Agreements

Partnership Agreements

Business Contracts

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Testimonials from Business Start-Ups

Great client service is at the centre of our thinking, it’s embodied into how we train and develop our staff, how we help our clients and how we advise and assist people and business owners with their legal needs.

Our Core Values are Welcoming, Confident, Supportive, Knowledgeable and Dependable and we aim for clients to have a positive experience with Lawson West Solicitors.

Evidence of our great client service can be seen in the reviews and testimonials we regularly receive. We are always pleased to receive great reviews because it means our clients are happy with the service we provide, and it shows that we deliver on our core values, we don’t just talk about them. We really welcome client feedback and hope you enjoy reading some of the latest testimonials throughout this website.

Very friendly help and advice.

Mr & Mrs N

The level of communication was excellent.

Mrs A

A friendly, informative and professional approach.

Mrs O

We were happy with the service as it was. A pleasant experience for a necessary procedure.

Mr & Mrs K, Wigston, Leicestershire

Overall very pleased with level of service.

Mr C, Wigston, Leicestershire

The service was great.

Miss H, Hertfordshire