Fixed-fee legal advice for entrepreneurs, start-ups & high growth ventures.
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Our legal specialisms
Our experienced team have completed hundreds of funding rounds in the London early stage market from Seed to Series B and can provide advice on corporate, commercial and employment matters.
As our team continues to grow, we’re also expanding our specialist practice offering. We can provide your business with legal advice on…
Company set-up
Funding rounds and investment
Trademarks & intellectual property
Employment
EMI and staff incentives
Data Protection
Saas, commercial contracts, technology and e-commerce
Exits
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Our Founder
Our Founder, Bill Cogan, is a dual-qualified lawyer, as a Solicitor of England & Wales and an Attorney-at-Law for the State of New York.
Before founding Seven Legal, Bill spent over 10 years advising PLCs, private international companies and early stage high growth ventures.
He founded Seven Legal with the mission of building a business that both clients and lawyers love working with.
Our lawyers
Legal advice tailored to each stage of your growth journey
We’ve aligned our services with the growth journey of our clients, providing you with expert legal advice tailored to the funding, scaling and exiting stages of a high-growth business.
Find out more about our services and the stage specific packages we offer in our client journey.
An Environmentally Focused Legal Consultancy
To solve problems for Founders by delivering stage-specific legal advice within a planet friendly business model.
We are members of 1% for the Planet and plant trees in the UK and around the world with Ecologi. In 2021 we also joined the Better Business Act coalition, campaigning for better environmental and social futures in the UK.
With these actions, we’re helping to turn the legal world green, because first-rate legal services do not have to cost the earth.
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Latest updates
National Security and Investment Act (NSI): What founders and start-ups need to know
Under the National Security and Investment Act the government must now be notified in advance of acquisitions of or investments in companies that may pose a risk to national security. Discover what you need to know as a founder or start-up business owner and how to make a notification.
Due diligence for start-ups & how to set up a data room
With our due diligence guide, you’ll learn how to prepare for investor scrutiny. We outline what areas of your business investors will be interested in, how to set up a due diligence data room and provide you with an example filing structure and list of documents to include.
10 Pitfalls to Avoid When Scaling
We work with many high-growth businesses and they often face the same challenges when scaling. We’ve put together a list of 10 pitfalls we see most commonly and how to deal with them. From founder fallouts to losing control of your exit, learn how to manage scaling risks.
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The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is still very much alive in the UK, even after the end of the Brexit transition period.
If you're unsure of your obligations when handling data, check out our blog.
#GDPR #dataprotection https://sevenlegal.co.uk/blog/data-protection-what-you-need-to-know-in-a-post-brexit-world/
One of the sustainability projects we've helped to fund via @Ecologi_hq recently is an initiative to generate renewable solar electricity in Egypt.
#sustainability #planetfriendly #environmental #legalconsultancy
https://ecologi.com/projects/solar-electricity-egypt