BUSINESS LEGAL SERVICES

Share Capital

Manage your share capital to maximum benefit and get a clear understanding of how your ownership structure can attract capital to your company.

Managing and issuing shares seems simple. But as your business grows, things can get more complicated. We can smooth your dealings with shareholders and help you provide them with an appropriate package of rights in your company. Plus, we can help you unpick the complexities of tax-advantaged investment schemes and employee share plans to help you attract funding and talent.

Experts in share capital

Our team can assist you across all areas of corporate law, including:

B Corp Conversion Lawyers
Corporate Governance
Sole Director Articles of Association Amends
Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) & Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS)
Exits and Disposals
Management Buy-Outs &-Buy-Ins
Limited Liability Partnership Agreements
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Private Equity
Share Capital
Cap Table Creation and Management
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Share Buybacks
Share Capital Reduction
Shareholders’ Agreements
Venture Capital Legal Services
Demergers
Term Sheets

Use share capital as a tool to grow your business

Our team of accomplished corporate lawyers can advise you on:

Shareholders’ rights

and what remedies your shareholders may be entitled to.

Executing a share buyback process

that works for your business, dealing with any pre-emption rights and drafting all necessary documentation.

Use of a cap table

and helping you to prepare one in advance of a funding round so you’ll know where you stand post-investment.

Share transfers and new allocations

and ensuring that these are registered properly.

How shares can form part of your employee incentive package

So that you can attract and retain talent to your business.

Shaping your offering so that you qualify as a target for investors in tax-advantaged schemes

Such as the Enterprise Investment Schemes, and Seed Enterprise Investment Schemes.

Documents that regulate your relationships with shareholders

such as your Articles of Association and shareholders’ agreements.

Amending your Articles of Association

To enable you to issue different classes of shares with varying rights.

Floating your company in an IPO

if you want to offer shares to the public.

Share capital reduction

so you can create distributable reserves or as part of a demerger for example.

Reviewing and maintaining statutory registers

To ensure your compliance with the Companies Act.

Ongoing compliance

with your obligations to Companies House when managing your share capital and register of shareholders.

Creating different classes of shares

So that you can tailor your shareholdings to suit different types of shareholders and effectively manage the rights and restrictions of different shareholder classes.

The importance of ‘anti-dilution’

in protecting your rights as a founder of your business.

Benefits of support from a specialist share capital lawyer

Use your ownership structure as a key tool to manage your business
Stay ahead of your competition by understanding the ins-and-outs of share capital. Whether it’s declaring dividends, voting on key issues, incentivising staff, or securing a funding deal, we’ll help you use your share capital structure as an essential management tool to facilitate growth.
Avoid basic mistakes when issuing shares to participants in your new venture
Issuing and allocating shares may seem simple yet giving away or selling shares can have a dramatic impact on the ownership structure and valuation of your company. We will explain to you why share ownership and share price is so important to the future of your new venture, and how to avoid losing control of your business. Avoiding mistakes at the beginning can ensure smooth sailing down the line.
Improve your access to capital
Understanding what kind of shares each type of investor prefers is a must. Pick our brains and use us as a sounding board to help you structure your share capital to appeal to the right investors. We can also support you in valuing your company’s shares as part of a funding round.
Optimise the tax position of your company and investors by taking advantage of EIS or SEIS
These schemes are extremely beneficial for both entrepreneurs and investors. We can reveal how you can unlock the benefits of these schemes by leveraging your share capital so that you’ve got more money available to fund your operations.
Pick the employee share incentive scheme that’s right for you

We can help you distinguish a CSOP (or ESOP) from a SIP from SAYE and unravel the complexities of these plans to help you pick the scheme that’s right for your business and that will best attract, retain and incentivise key talent in your industry.

Take the stress out of restructuring your share capital
If your business has reached a point where it is appropriate to restructure your share capital, we’ll take care of all the necessary steps, from amending your corporate documents, liaising with employees, to obtaining consents from shareholders.
Experienced advisors to lean on when you launch your IPO
Are you ready to take your business public? Let us be your expert legal advisor partnering with you and your business at every stage of its growth, from seed funding rounds to an IPO, and beyond.

Who we help: Founders, leadership teams, and entrepreneurs

Whatever stage your business has reached, there’s a member of our specialist share capital team who can help. We offer expert legal advice and hands-on support for start-ups looking to scale their business. In fact, our objective is to provide legal support to start-ups that’s more accessible, affordable, and holistic in approach. We’ll get to know your business goals so that we can apply our legal knowledge and commercial experience to reach the best possible outcome specifically for you. And that’s not just in relation to share capital. With our legal subscription plans you can quickly access legal support, when you need it, across our range of integrated services.

Why choose Suis Law Lawyers?

Our team of corporate lawyers has extensive experience of share capital, also specialising in supporting start-ups with funding rounds, accessing and managing venture capital, M&A, and equity incentive schemes. Across our corporate team, we’ve provided legal advice in numerous, high-profile transactions.

Our innovative subscription plans and remote operating model means that you can access expert legal advice and assistance from partner-level lawyers from £145 per hour, a fraction of the cost of traditional City law firms. Many of our senior lawyers have been recruited from top 100 Middle East and Europe law firms or large international businesses. Learn more about the team here:

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