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Comprehensive legal and business advice for emerging companies and their founders, helping to create, protect and maximise value for you and your business.

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Our Emerging Companies team provides comprehensive legal services designed to support high growth businesses and their founders at every stage of their journey, from start-up to exit.

We work closely with entrepreneurs, investors, and high-growth businesses, offering a tailored mix of expertise to help you build a strong foundation for long-term success.

As your business evolves, so do your legal and commercial needs. Our multidisciplinary team has the capability, experience, strategic insight and commerciality to grow with you from inception to exit.

We have the depth of knowledge and flexibility to work with you through mission critical funding rounds, the inevitable regulatory, tax, employment and commercial challenges that come with scaling your business and the expertise that you will need to protect the value that you have created when the time comes to exit.

Services

Starting up

Business structuring: Choosing the right legal structure is crucial. We guide you through the options and help establish the structure that best suits your vision.

Intellectual property: Protecting your ideas is paramount. We provide expert advice on intellectual property, trademarks, and copyrights to secure your innovations.

Knowledge sharing: Access to a wealth of resources and insights from industry experts.

Strategic relationships: As the preferred legal provider to Virgin StartUp and through our connections with investors, accelerators, incubators, universities, and public bodies we can help to build your network.

BScale document generator: Our innovative offering designed to support high-growth businesses at the early stages of their journey, leveraging technology to offer free legal documentation.

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Growth and scaling

Funding and investment: Whether it’s angel investing, EIS and SEIS investments, venture capital, corporate venturing, growth capital, or venture debt, we help companies, founders and their investors navigate the complexities of raising capital.

Protecting your business: From the ongoing protection of your ideas through advising on your intellectual property and brand protection strategy, navigating data protection or cyber security requirements to regulatory reviews and investigations, we are dedicated to maximising and protecting the value you have created.

Commercial agreements: Our dedicated team of commercial law experts can help advise on customer and supplier agreements from terms and conditions to large-scale outsourcings.

Exit: We regularly advise businesses, founders and their investors as they come to realise the value they have created by way of a sale to national and international trade or private equity buyers or IPO.

Supporting your business: As your team grows, so do your responsibilities. We provide advice on employment, rights to work, incentive schemes (including EMI options and all other equity incentive arrangements), places of work requirements, and debt financing arrangements.

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Alex Lloyd Partner View profile

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Danny Lee Partner View profile

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Martin Cook Partner View profile

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Niall Mackle Senior Associate View profile

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Chloe Adil Associate View profile

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Liz Smith Associate View profile

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Sam Taylor Solicitor View profile

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Examples of our work

Firefly Green Fuels

Advising waste to jet fuel business Firefly Green Fuels on its growth capital investment from Wizz Air Plc, significant associated offtake arrangements and its ongoing commercial, real estate and fundraising activities.

We Are Nium

Advising clean ammonia business We Are Nium on an equity investment led by US venture capital funds AgFunder and DCVC.

Prosper

Advising fintech business Prosper in relation to an equity funding round from investors including leading fintech figures, including Monzo’s co-founder Tom Blomfield, Comply Advantage executive chair Charles Delingpole, and Capital One’s co-founder and former Octopus and Tandem chair Matt Cooper.

Gemba

Advising VR business Gemba on its $18 million Series A fundraising from US VC investor Parkway Venture Capital.

Legatics

Advising legal tech business Legatics on multiple equity fundraisings lead by Gresham and US VC investor FINTOP Capital.

Electric Car Scheme

Advising Electric Car Scheme on multiple funding rounds including their most recent round led by UK-based VC investor 13books Capital, with participation from Triple Point Ventures, Seedcamp, Adjuvo, Ascension and Bayern Kapital.

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What others say

“We feel thoroughly supported and appreciative that such high-quality legal advice has been provided at such a realistic cost for an early stage business like ours, allowing us to pass a significant juncture in our growth. ”

Thom Groot Co-Founder & CEO of The Electric Car Scheme

“This fundraising marks another significant milestone in the Nium journey and we are very grateful to Alex, Niall and the Burges Salmon team for their expert advice and support which has enabled us to continue to grow and will make a big difference to helping us accomplish our mission. ”

Lewis Jenkins CEO and Co-Founder at Nium

“We are grateful to the Burges Salmon Team for the support they provided throughout this significant transaction. They were really responsive and pragmatic, helping us navigate through the complexities of a major investment round. Gemba is an impactful solution to the biggest challenge faced by transformational leaders and this milestone funding is vital in order to propel the company forwards.”

Nathan Robinson CEO of Gemba

“They are very receptive to investing the time to get to know their client’s business and introduce their multidisciplinary team to cover all future needs across company law, investments, employment, IP, property etc.”

Legal 500 UK 2024

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