Who We Work With
We work across a wide range of industries. Here are a few examples of the sectors we work in.
Our Services
We recognise that there are many options out there for high-growth businesses, including legal tech platforms. And we recognise that putting your trust in a firm of lawyers is often daunting, but we don’t see it that way.
Our role is to work in tandem with you to help you navigate the legal complexities of the commercial world. This means that we won’t just sell you a document, but our specialists will provide strategic and drafting advice and legal services. We’ll respond to questions quickly and clearly, take a real interest in you and your business, finish the job, and importantly, anticipate challenges, thereby future proofing your business.
Our specialists have decades of experience between them, offering honest insight that will be tailor made for you and your business. And at all stages we will be transparent with you on timescale and fees.
Our Collective supports the following legal services:
We provide reliable strategic advice across every stage of a business’s corporate journey, from Seed to Series B and beyond. Our support includes day-to-day Board decision making, drafting and interpreting articles and shareholder agreements, share capital reorganisations, group structuring, M&A and exits, as well as cross-border matters such as corporate restructuring and US holding company “Delaware flips”.
Our recent work includes:
• The sale of the share capital of a global media production company to an international brand conglomerate. The transaction was a mix of cash and equity consideration supported by debt finance, and also involved structuring an earn out and incentivisation scheme for the Seller’s employees across several jurisdictions.
• The sale of the share capital of a cosmetics and skincare company to a globally recognised brand. The all-cash transaction involved the usage of warranty and indemnity insurance by the Seller, a detailed layered waterfall of returns to the investor sellers and the creation of various escrow accounts in favour of the sellers, paying out dependent on subsequent events.
• The sale of the entire share capital of a purpose driven change consultancy to a publicly listed US company. A cash transaction, with a significant earn out scheme for some of the firm’s employees.
• The sale of the share capital of a raw data to analytics platform to an environmental consultant, including provision of warranty and indemnity insurance by purchaser and earn-out provisions.
• Supporting a pioneering US women’s healthcare company with the acquisition of the share capital of a UK healthcare platform.
• A complex restructuring of a pan-African fintech business to consolidate its group structure for operations going forwards. This was predominantly a share for share exchange transaction but also involved substantial ancillary structuring and advisory support.
Our team:
David Farquharson
Tim Herbert
Lizzie Frost
Teresa Wilcocks
Louise Walker
We provide support from term sheet stage to completion (from Seed to Series B and beyond). We advise on debt and equity raises, and the various matters (including SEIS and EIS) that affect our clients throughout the process, whether it represents the first external funds into the company to support initial development, or later investments that allow start-ups to power towards and through the next growth phase.
Our recent work includes:
• Advising on a fundraising for an innovative high growth technology business with multiple investors including a direct secondaries fund and an international private equity house.
• Advising on a fundraising for an ecommerce business from a venture capital firm, including SEIS and EIS components.
• Advising on various fundraising activities for an internationally recognised ethical footwear brand.
• Advising on numerous fundraisings by means of advanced subscription agreements and convertible loan notes.
Our team:
David Farquharson
Lizzie Frost
Teresa Wilcocks
Tim Herbert
Our specialist team will support you on all aspects of employee incentive schemes and non-cash share incentives to help recruit and retain staff, including EMI; growth shares and unapproved schemes on a national and international basis.
Our recent work includes:
• EMI; (growth shares and unapproved schemes on a national and international basis).
• Implementing a complex growth share scheme within an EMI wrapper for further tax insulation to incentivise a client’s senior employees.
• In the context of a sale of our client’s international media and production business, to a major global brand, advising on and implementing upon a blended growth share; phantom share; EMI and other unapproved scheme to incentivise our client’s employees and contractors based across several continents.
• Working to assist a digital creative agency, with the adoption of a new multi-jurisdictional option scheme. The new option scheme comprised an EMI scheme for the agency’s UK employees and a US sub-plan for US employees, together with an unapproved scheme for non-eligible participants of either of the registered plans.
Our team:
David Farquharson
Polly Jeanneret
Lizzie Frost
Francesca Yardley
Our experts’ legal, strategic and negotiation skills will help protect your business by ensuring that you have all the commercial agreements you need in place quickly, from supply contracts and IP licences, to JV agreements and NDAs, creating accessible and effective solutions, leaving you to focus on your day to day business.
Our recent work includes:
• Advising a major international music star with a number of global brand and influencer deals with some of the world’s leading fashion houses.
• Advising a leading global production company on a number of commercial deals to curate and produce marketing and advertisements for the seasonal collections of a number of major fashion brands.
• Advising a market leading digital fashion entity on a number of metaverse based deals.
• Advising a number of multinational ethical skincare businesses on a range of commercial distribution agreements.
• General advisory work for a fast growing community restaurant recommendation app.
• Negotiating SaaS agreements for a VC-backed cyber security company and advising on legal strategy for customer acquisition.
• Advising on a collaboration agreement for a carbon credit startup operating in the housing sector.
Our team:
David Farquharson
Teresa Wilcocks
Our team covers all aspects of data protection advice, from data audits to drafting privacy policies, together with assisting with data management breach procedures, empowering your business to grow.
Our recent work includes:
• Assisting several clients with a range of data protection policies, including privacy policy, cookie policy, staff privacy notice and procedures regarding data breach management.
• Advising a client on international data transfer, including implementation of safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers outside the UK/ EU. This included advice and assistance on special category data considerations on the transfer of personnel dietary and allergy information.
• Overseeing international data protection compliance project commencing with a data audit and then with implementation of internationally compliant policies including under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Our team:
David Farquharson
We cover the full spectrum of IP legal support, from the protection of ideas themselves through to the expression of your business’ brand, our lawyers will help you integrate your IP into your commercial strategy to maximise your competitive edge.
Our recent work includes:
• Advising various high profile entertainment and sporting industry clients with intellectual property protection strategies within the context of commercial deals with worldwide brands.
• Advising a number of fast growing technology businesses on technology and intellectual property license arrangements.
• Advice and assistance for numerous clients on protection of trademarks; design rights; and domain names.
Our highly skilled experts will advise you on every aspect of employment law, from supporting you with new hires and drafting contractual terms and covenants to disputes, departures and dismissals, supporting your business throughout the employment lifecycle.
Clients are facing more Employment Tribunal claims and internal disputes. We help respond to claims, strengthen HR processes, and advise on transfers, TUPE issues and the new Employment Act.
Our recent work includes:
• Helping a client investigate and act upon a complex employee whistleblowing disclosure.
• Assisting a client with enforcing confidentiality and non-disparagement obligations against a former employee.
• Advising a client on how to deal with a disciplinary process whilst the employee is on sick leave with a possible disability.
• Helping a client to change their employment terms (importantly by changing terms relating to pay), which affected a large proportion of the client’s workforce.
• Assisting clients with the difficult decision to make redundancies, helping with that process, and providing advice on employee queries that arise during the process.
• Assisting clients with updates to employment contracts, handbooks, and consultancy agreements.
• Advice on employment status and “IR35” risk in respect of consultants.
• Providing employment support to clients undergoing investment rounds or selling or buying a business. For example, carrying out employment due diligence and dealing with employment documentation for outgoing/incoming directors.
• Assisting a client with an employment claim alleging discrimination and other unfair prejudice.
Disputes are a part of life for high-growth businesses. Our highly experienced dispute lawyers have decades of experience between them, offering pragmatic and strategic insight as to the merits and workable solutions to reach the best achievable commercial outcomes for you.
Our experience includes both litigation and arbitration for disputes based in the UK or those with an international dimension. Examples of our advice include:
• Shareholder/founder deadlocks and exits;
• The misuse of intellectual property and personal data;
• Restrictive covenants and team moves as to defamation and malicious falsehood;
• Management agreements within the entertainment industry;
• Publishing disputes.
Our recent work includes:
• Advising a global media artist as to the termination of their long term management agreement.
• Advising on a dispute between a mental health not for profit and its former consultant on the consultant’s exit on pragmatic commercial terms.
• Advising on a dispute between our client and a major music company (as joint venturers) as to the running and subsequent sale of a music business.
• Providing clients with legal opinions concerning the enforceability of automatic renewal clauses in contracts.
• Advising as to defences against various claims for unpaid debts and as to the collection of unpaid debts and negotiating settlements of the same.
• Assisting a client as to the acceleration of a mortgage repayment clause on the basis of purported dishonesty.
• Providing support as to potential claims following failure of investment in a retirement home.
• Negotiating the setting aside of default judgements and stays on proceedings.
• Advising as to a dispute between directors of a fundraising platform, including the forced removal of a director by shareholders.
Our specialist team of lawyers will provide expert advice on dealing with administrators, liquidators and other insolvency practitioners, and give you confidence in dealing with statutory demands, winding up petitions and other demands by creditors. Examples of our advice include:
• Providing advice to companies in distress as to liquidation options, including pre-pack sales;
• Advising insolvency practitioners as to claims made against or by companies in
liquidation.
Our recent work includes:
• Advising as to debt collection, including the issue of statutory demands (with various international jurisdictional considerations).
• Advising directors of various entities regarding solvency matters and strategies regarding avoidance of wrongful trading.
We have recently become an accredited B Corp, joining a global community of purpose-driven businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact. That means that we have been verified as meeting quality standards for social and environmental impact, that we have a legal commitment to stakeholder governance, and that we are demonstrating accountability and transparency by disclosing this record of performance in a public B Corp profile. We therefore have the experience and insight to support companies who are interested in also going on the B Corp journey and joining this community.
Our packages of support are as follows:
• Document only – free template documents allowing companies to easily update its articles.
• Light – light support to provide necessary wording for articles and corporate approvals required for B Corp status.
• Supported – full support to amend and adopt bespoke articles of association, shareholder agreements and corporate approvals necessary to obtain B Corp status.
• Premium – full support for businesses with their B Corp applications.
Once we have discussed your requirements, for any additional work required beyond the provision of our free template documents, we will be able to confirm a fixed fee to give you certainty of budget before commencing work.
Click here for more info.
Our team:
David Farquharson
We advise across media and entertainment law, supporting TV and film producers, music and sports talent, DJs, brand agencies, digital businesses and studios.
Our recent work includes:
• The sale of the share capital of a global media production company to an international brand conglomerate. The transaction was a mix of cash and equity consideration supported by debt finance and also involved structuring an earn out and incentivisation scheme for the Seller’s employees across several jurisdictions.
• Advising leading international fashion production company on a number of commercial deals to curate and produce marketing and advertisements for the seasonal collections of a number of major fashion brands.
• Advising a premier global media artist on a number of significant brand, influencer and other commercial deals.
• Instituting appropriate corporate and share structure for a significant commissioning producer.
• Advising as to dispute between film’s director, funder and purchaser as to ownership, funding, distribution and release.
• Advising on publishing, management and neighbouring rights contracts.
• Advising on partnership disputes.
• Advising on NDAs.
Our technology clients bring to market processes and applications that are rapidly transforming sectors. Our advice supports innovative start-ups through to becoming thriving businesses.
Our recent work includes:
• Advising on a fundraising for an innovative high growth technology business with multiple investors including a direct secondaries fund and an international private equity house.
• General advisory work for fast growing community restaurant recommendation app.
• Commercial advice for innovative medical platform for training and assessing individuals and healthcare providers across a range of imaging modalities and disease areas.
• Commercial and fundraising advice to a tech platform allowing companies to collect and analyse, report and improve their ESG performance.
Our fashion and design clients are global leaders in sustainable design, lifestyle and influence. We support brands that are leading their fashion and design lines, providing fundraising as well as corporate and commercial legal advice.
Our recent work includes:
• The sale of the share capital of a cosmetics and skincare company to a globally recognised brand. The all-cash transaction involved the usage of warranty and indemnity insurance by the Seller, a detailed layered waterfall of returns to the investor sellers and the creation of various escrow accounts in favour of the sellers, paying out dependent on subsequent events.
• Advising on various fundraising activity for an internationally recognised ethical footwear brand.
• Advising on production, commercial and employment agreements for a global celebrity owned style arts and society concierge platform.
• Advising market leading digital fashion entity on a number of metaverse based deals.
Our impact-focused clients include social enterprises, not-for-profits and B-Corps. We help purpose-driven organisations with legal structures, ESG reporting, funding, grants and charity law.
We also provide support to businesses who are interested in becoming accredited B Corps and have a series of packages to help support that process. Click here for more info.
Our recent work includes:
• Advising a number of purpose driven companies on their structure and mission in respect of successful applications for B Corp.
• General commercial support to an international purpose driven consultancy supporting leaders in delivering systemic change.
We advise diverse health and wellness brands, supporting innovative start-ups, influencers, minority-owned businesses and larger brands across their legal needs.
Our recent work includes:
• Negotiating distributor contracts, including ecommerce distributors.
• Supporting a pioneering US women’s healthcare company with the acquisition of the share capital of a UK healthcare platform.
• Advising a number of multinational ethical skincare businesses on a range of commercial distribution agreements.
We support international consultancy firms with strategic legal advice across life sciences, fintech, pharma and change management, helping them deliver complex global projects to tight deadlines.
Our recent work includes:
• The sale of the entire share capital of a purpose driven change consultancy to a publicly listed US company. A cash transaction, with a significant earn out scheme for some of the firm’s employees.
• Assistance with customer contracts and structures to allow fundraising.
London Law Collective (LLC) and Nlaw have formed a strategic partnership to provide expert legal advice to innovative and scaling businesses. This collaboration brings together LLC, a UK boutique law firm, and Nlaw, a Slovenia-based law firm with offices in Croatia and Palo Alto, (California) specialising in supporting scaling businesses.
The partnership aims to address the unique challenges faced by scaling businesses in today’s rapidly evolving market. These challenges include navigating complex regulatory landscapes, protecting intellectual property, and securing funding. By combining their extensive knowledge and resources, LLC and Nlaw will deliver comprehensive, high-quality legal guidance to our clients.
Both firms have established strong presences in the venture capital (VC), startup, and technology sectors and are internationally recognised for their corporate and commercial work. Their history of successful collaboration on numerous matters has laid the foundation for this expanded partnership, which will focus on empowering entrepreneurs with tailored legal services.
When it comes to fees, we believe that a relationship with no surprises is best. Our fee arrangements are based on our many years of experience and knowledge of similar matters.
For most transactions, we’re happy to work to a capped fee arrangement or a flexible monthly retainer to help you with cash flow management. Either way you can be sure that what we agree will be the maximum fee you will be charged on any of your workstreams without further discussion, leaving you to concentrate on running your business knowing that we have your back.
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