Northampton Solicitors

BUSINESS START UP SOLICITORS NORTHAMPTON & SMALL BUSINESS LAWYERS NORTHAMPTON

Let’s be clear from the start, starting any business is a challenge and most people starting a  business understandably want to invest whatever financial and other resources are available into product, staff, premises and marketing to get the business going. Legal advice and fees are often well down the ist of priorities and for understandable reasons. Northampton small business lawyers understand this as the starting point.

However, just like building a new house, a business needs the right foundations from the outset. Failing to create solid foundations will almost inevitably lead to problems being stored up later, which can be internal problems, such as partnership or shareholder disputes or employment problems. Alternatively, you may face external issues and threats such as challenges to your business contracts, terms and conditions if they are not in good shape and/or legally binding.

So, it’s really about proportionality and priorities. We work with all kinds of small business and start ups and get genuine pleasure from seeing our clients thrive and prosper. As you become an increasingly successful business, with the right foundations, you grow and that means we grow, so it’s about developing long term relationships.

Ways in which we can help small business or start ups include, on a highly cost effective basis :-

• Advice on the best business structure for you in terms of legal risk and reward, such as partnerships, limited company, sole trader or LLP.
• Company formations, preparation of tailored articels or memorandum of association
• Shareholder agreements
• Partnership agreements
• Business contracts of all kinds
• Review of and advice on the increasingly important area of laws affecting online business and intellectual property rights
• Your business terms & conditions
• Policies and procedures for dealing with suppliers
• Checklist of issues which you need to be aware of if dealing with consumers or for international trading
• Regaulations which affect your particular business
• Business leases & licences for premises your business will occupy
• Employment contracts
• possible product liability considerations

As advised above, it is our aim to develop long term relationships with all small business clients. This is fundamental to our ethos, so we will be as sympathetic as we can be on costs, often quoting fixed fees to give you certainty, and taking into consideration we are also a small business which needs to grow and make ends meet ! please get in touch for an initial free consultation.