Entrepreneurs Matter We are the law firm for start-ups, scale-ups and the entrepreneurially-spirited.

Start-Ups

Clear, pragmatic & relevant advice to simplify  entrepreneur’s lives

scale-ups

No-nonsense advice as you build your team, scale systems and develop processes

entrepreneurs

Sound counsel for innovators, no matter what the size of your business or challenge

Ignition Law are advisors and partners for your journey of growth

Maybe you’re a start-up navigating the maze of complications to get your business up and running, a scale-up looking to raise funds, a mature business needing cost-effective, expert legal and commercial advice or even a founder looking to exit. Wherever you are in your entrepreneurial journey, we have the legal experience you need.

From securing investment, protecting and monetising your ideas to support to keep everything running smoothly, we’re passionate about guiding and advising you through every stage of your entrepreneurial journey.

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What We Do

Commercial Law

Ensuring clear and meaningful terms of trade with customers and suppliers.

Company Secretarial

Keeping on top of your company compliance obligations.

Corporate Law

Funding, acquisition, investment or exit. Get the details right.

Data Protection

Straight-forward approaches to radically reduce risk and maximise data.

Dispute Resolution

Disputes are a reality. Get proactive solutions and reactive advice.

Employment Law

Legal foundations to retain, incentivise and manage key talent.

Finance
Loans, equity, restructuring and financing; clear support to help you manage your money.
Intellectual Property

Balance innovation with the commercial necessity of proper protection.

Property law

Make property matters run smoothly and create flexible property plans that accommodate your growth.

Share Options & Incentives
Incentivise your staff and navigate tax opportunities.
Virtual General Counsel
Seamless integration with your team to manage your legal matters.

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What People Say

Working with Ignition Law feels like having a trusted team member for all things legal. We won’t be able to move as fast as we do without Ignition. It’s the truth.
Ivan Beckley, Founder
Ivan Beckley, FounderSuvera
As an early stage company, the understanding of our needs and the support provided by Ignition has been invaluable
Paul Rinne, CEO
Paul Rinne, CEOGripable
Ignition Law has been the perfect partner for our business from start-up through to growth into an SME. They have provided support with shareholding, employment and client commercial contracts as and when required. Highly recommend for Fintech start-ups.
Murray Abel, Managing Director
Murray Abel, Managing DirectorControl Now
We found the team at Ignition incredibly commercial, business friendly and responsive. Having worked with Ignition for both our pre-seed and seed rounds we were impressed by how they scaled up to meet the challenge, and were able to advise us across a range of areas.
Lucas London,CEO & co-founder
Lucas London,CEO & co-founderLick
A truly exceptional non traditional law firm which has the best of all worlds: top quality leadership and management; superb practitioners; an attitude that anything can be achieved; encouraging development of its people; strong client relationships; and world class response and focus. In addition, the work is always of the highest quality. I cannot recommend Ignition enough.
Rupert Tate, CEO
Rupert Tate, CEOBear Grylls Ventures
Friendly, helpful, understanding innovation.
Rag Satguru, Director
Rag Satguru, DirectorAssemble Talent
The Ignition Law team is more passionate and dedicated than any firm we have ever worked with. During our funding round, Jake quickly got to grips with our needs from a legal perspective, but also clearly understood the broader commercial challenges we faced as a start-up. He’s incredibly well organised, always responsive, incredibly focused and above all, a real pleasure to work with! As a result, he has now become a core part of our team.
Max Lehnus, Founder & CEO
Max Lehnus, Founder & CEOWorldLabs
Ignition Law is incredibly people-orientated and all of the team members I have met are wonderful.
Libby Wood, Lead Programme Manager
Libby Wood, Lead Programme ManagerSaiid Business School
Dr Logic recently entered a period of rapid growth and expansion resulting in us needing to develop a new Group Structure. As such, I was looking for a legal practice who could understand the business and walk me through the legal process as well as providing sound commercial advice. I was introduced to Ignition Law by one of Dr Logic's clients and I was impressed with their joined up thinking and quick response, they always came back really quickly whenever I had a question. The legal documentation that we've ended up with is perfect and just what we wanted - and they were very fairly priced.
Roman Marszalek, MD
Roman Marszalek, MDDr Logic
I engaged Ignition Law to help prepare a cookie policy, privacy policy and terms of use for my website. Julia Ellis was very responsive and gave very practical advice. I very much liked that the policies and terms weren’t too ‘legalese’, but seemed comprehensive.
Iain Russell, Founder and Director
Iain Russell, Founder and DirectorRussell IP Ltd
We’ve worked with Ignition Law with our first startup and they were quick, affordable and professional. Then when Covid-19 lockdown started earlier in the year we decided to build a community support app; vHelp. Ignition Law were incredible in helping us get the legal side sorted with fantastic turn around time.
Randa Bennett, CEO & Founder
Randa Bennett, CEO & FounderVeeloop
Ignition advised on the purchase of St Peter’s Brewery and we were extremely happy with the way they handled it. It was the first time we had bought an operating company but they guided us through the process in a way that really inspired confidence. Phil and Jon were approachable, super responsive, imaginative and highly professional. They thought of everything and we are extremely grateful for their advice. We cannot recommend Ignition highly enough.
Derek Jones, CEO
Derek Jones, CEOSt Peter's Brewery
Phil and Lizzy have been wonderful on our seed round fundraising, really understanding our needs as an early stage start-up. They handled the whole process extremely professionally and promptly with a very kind soul.
Dr. Howard Wu
Dr. Howard WuCEO
Ignition law have been fantastic. From our very first enquiry they went above and beyond to help and advise us, even before we'd signed up! Always quick to respond and not over complicating things. They were very helpful in and finding practical solutions with a tricky lease. Thanks to their amazing support we are now busy building our new bigger Pilates, Yoga and Ballet Barre fitness studio in Highbury!
Gabrielle Boyd
Gabrielle BoydCo Founder
From the beginning, it felt like we were talking to a keep it real company who were focused on getting us over the line in a way that would be beneficial to us now and in the future. Phil and the team took time to break complex terms down to us, manage all the key stakeholders with us and were willing to iron out any issues along the way in an open and transparent way. A steep learning curve for us, made easier by the Ignition team. Thanks a lot for the hard work!
Tendai Moyo
Tendai MoyoCEO
We had some property work that was beautifully handled by Helen Lucas and her team. The value of their effortless expertise was something we will never forget. If you're after honest, straight to the point expert legal advice then these guys are your first call. Highly recommend and will be back for any future work.
Farhana Haque
Farhana HaqueCo-Owner
I wish to thank Ignition Law for an outstanding service at excellent value for money. Helen Gerrard and Fiona Morris's advice was well-considered and highly responsive.
Phillip Hyett
Phillip HyettFinance Director
Ignition advised Vox Financial Partners in their successful acquisition by Treliant, a US buyer. Vox was a global firm with multiple entities in three different jurisdictions, making it a complex deal to navigate. Ignition worked very well with our US legal team, and were responsive, diligent, and thorough in all their work; I also felt they “had our back” and were always looking out for our best interests. Where they most impressed was with their commercial-minded thinking: they displayed a great ability to clarify legal concepts for the non-lawyer and then to suggest practical approaches to break through barriers. And they’re good people! We truly enjoyed working with Phil, Lauren, John, and Elizabeth.
Colin Reid
Colin ReidChief Strategy Officer
What a pleasure for the NHST to be working with Ignition Law. Their expertise and incredible attention to detail has been so important to us. So too has been their friendliness and guidance throughout. Very highly recommended.
Paul Coleman
Paul Coleman
My case was kindly picked up by ignition Law as a pro-bono which was very kind of them. I needed so much help in negotiating a contract that was important to me but didn't quite understand. I was given their professional advice on the matter by an expert and everything I didn't understand was explained to me. My thoughts were taken seriously and I always felt that everything was being negotiated for my own benefit. Billy Jenks kindly offered to ring the other party to explain the new terms because it would be kinder on them and this way it wouldn't affect my future relationship with them and everything would be explained better and more coherent over the phone rather than on an email. I believe that I was treated very kindly, and the services they provided were excellent from negotiating on my behalf to explaining everything to me, I was very happy with the outcome.
Maya GhazalAviation Engineering Student and advocate for refugee rights
Ignition Law recently helped me sell Mathigon, a small EdTech startup based in the UK, to Amplify, a publisher based in New York – working on everything from the initial term sheet to due diligence documents and the final share purchase agreement. Helen Gerrard and her team were fantastic, working through weekends, while on vacations, and late in the evening to accommodate different time zones. Under significant time pressure, they managed to quickly assemble a small team covering corporate, commercial, employment and IP law, and help with all the different aspects of the acquisition process.
Philipp Legner
Philipp LegnerFounder and CEO
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Client Stories

Meet Toast Ale and its founder Louisa Ziane. Toast uses surplus bread in the catering industry to replace barley in the brewing industry. Louisa manages the company’s commitment to people, planet and profit and ensures the brand represents Toast’s purpose
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Suvera is transforming the healthcare industry by enabling general practices to virtually follow up patients with long-term conditions and their treatments in a convenient, fast and effective way.
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Seekology is a new concept store and platform showcasing remarkable beauty + well-being brands. All the brands featured at Seekology are independent, British brands, many of which have never been sold in a physical retail store before.
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Meet Veeloop's co-founder Randa Bennett. Veeloop provides a simple, safe and convenient way for teens to shop online, whilst also teaching them to become financially confident, responsible consumers. Covid19 led to the setting up of the vhelp App which enables sheltering individuals to reimburse volunteers for shopping.
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Jonathan was one of the first advocates for clean burning wax products, pioneering against the giants that use petroleum waxes and challenging the definition of luxury. Jonathan Ward focuses on products from the inside out. Certified soil association approved organic triple blend propriety wax; Italian glass; British Packaging. Innovative and complex aroma with no compromise in richness.
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Meet Iain Russell, Founder of Russell IP. Iain is a patent attorney and an inventor who founded Russell IP after having been a Partner at an international IP law firm. Russell IP provides high-quality, cost-effective patent attorney services for patent-savvy businesses and specialises in high tech (especially telecoms) and music technology patent work.
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Meet reboxed and its founder Phil Kemish. Phil and co-founder Matt Thorne started this sustainability-focused refurbished and pre-owned tech brand based in Brixton, south London. Their mission? To rehome 100 million devices by 2030.
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