We support businesses throughout their growth journey, from corporate structuring and commercial transactions to fundraising, investments and strategic partnerships — helping them access capital and build on sound legal and commercial foundations.
Access to capital depends on more than the quality of the business. Investors also need confidence that the company behind it is structurally, legally and operationally ready for scrutiny.
That readiness is where transactions are most often lost. A cap table nobody can reconstruct. Founder equity that was never properly issued. Intellectual property still sitting with a contractor who left two years ago. Statutory filings years behind. Related-party arrangements that were never documented. A holding structure that made sense for three people and does not work for the transaction now on the table.
Almost all of it is cheap to fix early and expensive to fix in the middle of a raise, under deadline, with an investor watching.
We work with companies before, during and after the transaction. Before, we put the corporate structure in order and prepare the business for the scrutiny it is about to face. During, we negotiate and document the deal. After, we integrate what was agreed into how the company actually runs — because investment documents that nobody implements create their own category of problem, usually discovered at the next round.
What distinguishes this practice is that we do not stop at the signature. A shareholders’ agreement with reserved matters nobody tracks, information rights nobody services and board obligations nobody has diarised is a liability rather than a protection. We build the governance that makes the documents work.
Company formation, incorporation and registration
Holding company design and group structuring
Group reorganisation and restructuring
Share issuance, cap table construction and clean-up
Founder, shareholder and equity arrangements
Management equity and incentive schemes
Fundraise readiness and diligence preparation
Data room construction and documentation
Investor negotiation and term sheet advisory
Investment documentation — SAFEs, convertibles, subscription and shareholders’ agreements
Post-investment implementation and compliance
Mergers, acquisitions and asset acquisitions
Divestments and exits
Joint ventures and strategic partnerships
Transaction diligence and coordination
Transaction documentation through to completion
Debt and financing documentation
Working capital and trade finance arrangements
Structured commercial finance transactions
Project and investment finance coordination
Commercial contracting and counterparty risk
Cross-border investment structuring and approvals
Corporate, transactional and governance aspects of securities and capital market transactions
Documentation and regulatory preparation
Investor and stakeholder arrangements
We advise on the corporate, transactional, governance and documentation aspects of securities and capital market transactions, and work alongside appropriately licensed market professionals where a mandate requires regulated capital market services.
Corporate structure review and clean-up — bringing records, filings, equity and group structure into order
Fundraise readiness — cap table reconstruction, IP chain of title, compliance remediation, data room, diligence dry run
Transaction support — a raise, an acquisition, a divestment or a joint venture, from term sheet to close
Post-investment implementation — turning investment documents into functioning governance and reporting
Group restructuring — redesigning a holding structure for growth, investment or expansion
Financing documentation support — debt, trade and structured finance arrangements
Market entry structuring for foreign investors — entity selection, registration, investment approvals and capital importation
