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You’re at a stage where the smallest decisions have the biggest consequences. The way you structure the business, protect your IP, handle equity, hire, or sign your first deals will shape everything that comes next – funding, growth, valuation and even your exit. Most founders don’t realise how costly early missteps can be until they’re fixing them under pressure.
By embedding ourselves into your team, often on a fractional, in-house basis, we help you make smart calls early, avoid expensive clean-ups later, and build the foundations your future success depends on. We’ll handle legal while you build your legend.
Everything a startup needs legally — from day one through scale — delivered with clarity, speed, and commercial insight.
- Corporate Legal Support
- Commercial Agreements
- Startup Employment Law & HR Support
- Data Protection for Startups
- Startup Fundraising Legal Support
- Specialist Advice: Crypto, AI & Regulated Tech
- IP Protection (Powered by Stobbs)
If you’re innovating in a regulated or fast-moving sector, you need legal guidance that keeps pace. We help founders launch, scale and stay compliant without slowing down momentum.
- Product classification for technologies that sit under securities, financial services, AI or consumer regulations
- Smart structuring and jurisdiction strategy for crypto, fintech and AI-driven products
- Platform terms, SAFTs and commercial agreements built to withstand scrutiny
- Regulatory strategy that anticipates FCA, AI, GDPR and crypto asset requirements
- Privacy, data protection and risk management, including anonymisation and explainability for AI tools
When you’re pushing boundaries, our finely-tuned legal services for startups offer the clarity and confidence to move fast – without cutting corners.
The team that will lead you from idea to exit.
Tom is a technology lawyer specialising in Fintech. He trained at White & Case before leading legal functions at two award-winning UK Fintechs. In 2019, he founded Founders Law to challenge the traditional law-firm model – offering agile, cost-effective, in-house-style legal support for high-growth companies.
Ed leads operations at Founders Law, overseeing HQ, strategy and all things non-legal to keep the firm scaling fast. A 4× award-winning leader, he’s known for innovative thinking and sharp operational planning.
Tilly brings a creative-agency background and a talent for turning ideas into commercial impact. She’s worked with global brands and high-growth scale-ups, helping them punch above their weight.
We speak founder, not legalese.
You’ll get clear, direct guidance that helps you make decisions quickly — not dense advice you need to decode.
We’ve lived the journey ourselves.
Our team has started, grown and exited businesses. We understand the pressures, the unknowns and the startup legal services that are essential for this stage of the journey.
We embed into your team.
We can embed within existing teams or structure on a fractional, in-house basis to supercharge efficiency. Think of us as (much better value) in-house legal, on demand – there to power ambition from idea to exit.
Sector expertise that matches the modern start-up landscape.
Fintech, crypto, AI, SaaS, marketplaces, UK–GCC expansion — we support founders operating in fast-moving, regulated and emerging sectors.
A partnership that transformed legal operations.
Learn how we partnered with Vizzy to help them navigate the dynamic world of SaaS.
We act as an extension of your team and handle any overflow in specialist areas.
Working across five continents, operating in multiple sectors, with over 400 clients.
Offices in London | Dubai.
Speak to our employment law solicitors today and build your team with clarity and confidence.
