One senior team across your whole portfolio.
Funds spend a disproportionate amount of legal budget on repeatable work: the next round, the next option grant, the next secondary. We run that work with AI-assisted drafting under partner review, so each deal is faster and cheaper than the last without the quality dropping.
Investment documents
Term sheets, subscription and shareholders' agreements, articles and side letters under English law, negotiated from the investor side and closed on your timetable.
Portfolio company support
Follow-on rounds, bridge and venture debt, option pools, founder and leaver terms and the commercial contracts your portfolio companies need to scale.
Secondaries and exits
Secondary sales, tender offers, drag and tag mechanics, share buy-backs and trade-sale exits, including coordination with the company and other holders.
Cross-border UK, US and Latin America deals
Investments into Brazilian and Latin American companies through UK holding structures, UK and US investments into the region and US-side documents delivered with our partner US firms, all coordinated as one team.
SEIS and EIS compliant rounds
Advance assurance, scheme-compliant share terms and the sequencing that keeps your angels' and co-investors' relief intact.
Fund-level advisory
Co-investment and syndication documents, LP-facing commercial points and NDA and engagement terms. For fund formation and regulatory matters we work alongside specialist counsel.
Senior, fixed-fee and built for cross-border.
- Partner on every matter. No junior handoffs. The lawyer on the first call is the lawyer who negotiates and closes.
- Price-guaranteed estimates. A fixed figure per deal, agreed before work starts, so portfolio legal spend is predictable.
- UK and Latin America natively, the US through partners. We work in English, Portuguese, Italian and Hungarian, understand all three markets and coordinate partner US firms and local counsel so you deal with one team.
- Founder-literate. We act for founders too, so our investor-side documents land cleanly and close without the usual friction.
- Scheme-aware. SEIS, EIS and VCT conditions are checked on every relevant round so co-investor relief is never put at risk. Read our SEIS and EIS guide.
Questions funds ask us.
Do you act for funds or for founders?
Both, and we are careful about conflicts. On any matter we act for one side only, and we tell you at the first call if we already act for the other.
Can you fix the cost of a portfolio financing?
Yes. Every engagement starts with a price-guaranteed estimate agreed up front, so you can budget portfolio legal spend per deal rather than per hour.
Do you handle fund formation and FCA matters?
Fund formation, authorisation and ongoing regulatory compliance sit with specialist counsel we work alongside. We focus on the investment, portfolio and transaction work.
Which jurisdictions do you cover?
We are qualified in English law and work day to day with funds and companies in the UK, the US, Brazil and across Latin America. For US-law work we deliver through partner US firms, and for Latin American local-law questions we coordinate trusted counsel in each jurisdiction, managing everything as one team.
How quickly can you turn a term sheet or investment agreement?
AI-assisted first drafts under senior review mean a mark-up typically comes back within days, and most portfolio rounds close in under three months end to end.