As a start-up or entrepreneur at the beginning of your journey, getting advice from somebody you can trust, who understands your business, understands the ecosystem and recognises the risks you need to take to be successful allows you to concentrate on what is important – building your business.
We like to work with companies throughout their lifecycle. We’re not just there to ‘paper the deal’. We work hard to help our clients realise the full potential of their business, acting as strategic partners and business advisers. We treat every client as an individual adapting our service to meet their specific needs. We are in it for the long term, supporting you and your business from inception of an idea through to fundraisings, launch, expansion, exit and beyond.
We often get asked if we can make introductions to capital providers. Whilst it isn’t the core element of what we do, having been actively involved with the start-up community for so many years, we have developed useful contacts that may be able to help finance your projects. We also act for a number of investors.
We are passionate about the early stage ecosystem and are proud to have advised and continue to advise some of the UK’s most successful start-up businesses.
We can provide you with advice on:
- Company formation and company secretarial support
- Structuring, drafting and negotiating investments
- The full spectrum of commercial, IP and technology agreements
- Protecting, enforcing and exploiting IP rights (typically the key assets of early stage companies)
- Advising you on data protection or privacy issues
- Share schemes and benefits, including advice on the availability of, and tax advantages associated with, enterprise management incentive (EMI) options for key employees, and the enterprise and seed enterprise investment schemes (EIS and SEIS) that give tax relief to investors
- Your service agreements
- Tax, corporate and personal planning structures
- Wealth and estate planning
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- Buying other companies and businesses
- Your exit.
Brandwatch
We advised leading social media monitoring company, Brandwatch, on its $6m Series A investment round led by Nauta Capital and its subsequent $22m Series B and $33m Series C investment rounds led respectively by Highland Europe and Partech Ventures.
Smart Pension
We advised, fast growth, auto enrolment pension provider, Smart Pension, on its investment from and partnership with Legal & General Investment Management and subsequent £15m Series B funding round.
Decoded
We advised the code and data education and digital transformation company, Decoded, on a strategic investment by global news and digital publishing group Guardian Media Group.
Hopster
We advised the subscription based TV and learning app for pre-schoolers on a multi-million pound funding round led by Sandbox Partners.
Pavegen
We advised footfall energy-harvesting company, Pavegen, on its £2m crowdfunding investment via Crowdcube.
CloudTrade
We advised CloudTrade, the leading provider of cloud-based e-invoicing, e-order and complex data capture services on a £2million investment from Calculus Capital.
Tony Littner
Co-Managing Partner
E: anthony.littner@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Colin Howes
Legal Consultant
E: colin.howes@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Charles Leveque
Co-Managing Partner
E: charles.leveque@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
David Scott
Partner
E: david.scott@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Sacha Wilson
Partner
E: sacha.wilson@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Poppy Lucas
Managing Associate
E: poppy.lucas@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Tom Macleod
Partner
E: tom.macleod@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Sarah Verrecchia
Managing Associate
E: sarah.verrecchia@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Edward Lane
Managing Associate
E: edward.lane@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Emily Miles
Managing Associate
E: emily.miles@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Teresa Walker
Senior Associate
E: teresa.walker@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000