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Commercial Lawyers in London: Ignition Law

 

Your partners for business 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 an SME founder looking to exit. Wherever you are on your entrepreneurial journey, our team of commercial lawyers in London has all the legal experience you need.

From securing investment, protecting and monetising your ideas to support to keep everything running smoothly, the UK commercial lawyers at Ignition Law are passionate about guiding and advising you through every stage of your business.

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CLIENT STORIES

What does it take to build an independent estate agency in one of the UK’s most competitive property markets? In this Igniting the Spark interview, Paul Barker, Director of Paul Barker Estate Agents, talks about spotting a gap between traditional high-street and online estate agencies, navigating COVID-19 and rising interest rates, and building a business around honest advice and personal service.
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How do you turn a shared love of food into a fast-growing technology business? In this Igniting the Spark interview, James Green, Co-founder of Appetite, discusses building a restaurant discovery and booking app with his brother Toby Green.
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What does it take to bring a centuries-old wellness tradition into the heart of modern London, and then keep it going through one of the toughest periods hospitality has ever faced?
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Al Hleileh, CEO and Co-founder of Civic Marketplace, shares his experience of taking on local government procurement.
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Yousif Oghanna, talks about why the Chief of Staff role is as much about uncelebrated work as strategy.
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Charlie Byrd, Founder and Managing Director of Aviary Group Limited, talks about why the gap between mining and usable industrial material is where the real leverage sits.
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What does it look like to build a legal function inside a business driven by both growth and purpose? In this Igniting the Spark interview, Kate Sherburn, Head of Legal at Who Gives A Crap, shares her experience of doing exactly that.
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We spoke with Ben Wilmot, co-founder of Canbury, about building a business shaped by real-world investor challenges. Drawing on his experience advising pension schemes and asset managers, Ben set out to create a more tailored approach to sustainability data.
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As part of our Igniting the Spark series, we caught up with Ben Jaletzke, founder of Felix Research, the team behind FelixOne. Ben is now building a product aimed at tackling some of the inefficiencies he experienced first-hand, as Felix Research prepares for its launch later this year.
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In this interview we speak with Paul Stamoulis, Managing Partner at Clarim Holdings, about building meaningful connections through business, navigating complexity and the importance of learning from others.
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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, FounderSuvera
Ignition Law is an outcome-focused law firm. I have found their advice to be strong, leading to positive outcomes for the business. They have always been able to support my needs.
Chambers UK Guide 2027 client feedback
The team at Ignition Law are distinguished by their commercial, solution-focused approach and their ability to give pragmatic advice in fast-moving transactions. They have strong technical corporate expertise and a clear understanding of the commercial drivers, which enable them to deliver clear, efficient and commercial outcomes.
Chambers UK Guide 2027 client feedback
As an early stage company, the understanding of our needs and the support provided by Ignition has been invaluable
Paul Rinne, CEOGripable
They are incredibly responsive and easy to work with. It is incredibly good value for money.
Chambers UK Guide 2027 client feedback
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 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-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, CEOBear Grylls Ventures
Friendly, helpful, understanding innovation.
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 & CEOWorldLabs
Ignition Law is incredibly people-orientated and all of the team members I have met are wonderful.
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, 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 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 & 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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 LegnerFounder and CEO
Philipp Legner
"Thank you for your support this year! You have been fantastic and diligent in all the work. I appreciate your valuable advice and input to help us solve some complex matters. You were always there to support us on urgent requests!”
Scarlett ZhangHead of Risk Management & Compliance, Redeemeum
We appreciated the client-centric approach with knowledgeable people giving practical and easy-to-understand advice. No matter who you deal with, the culture and commitment to excellence is the same. Thank you all.
Andrew MorrisonFounder and BD Director
Ignition Law has supported our business for the last 18 months in structuring a VCT fundraise and then executing the spinout of a software start-up from our consultancy business. It's been great working with such a personable, pragmatic and technically strong team. Ex-Magic Circle lawyers operating like an agile tech business... Highly recommended. Thank you again to the Ignition Team.
Mike BobroffBusiness Improvement Director
Ignition Law were both extremely helpful and extremely clear - which is a very useful combination for a start up.
Sporting Goods Industry Start-up
"Alexis, was always responsive to our questions and concerns. She explained legal concepts and procedures in a way that was easy to understand, and provided us with valuable guidance and advice throughout the entire process".
Hamsa HussainBogenfels Gold DMCC

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News, Insights & Resources
Blog

Legal and SEIS/EIS Tax Considerations for a Funding Round 

In this Commercial Conversations webinar, Heros Leask of Ignition Law and Philip Hare of Philip Hare & Associates explored the key legal and tax considerations businesses should understand when preparing for investment, from choosing the right funding structure and negotiating terms to understanding SEIS and EIS eligibility.

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10th November 2026
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Ignition Law welcomes Ashrelle Parker-Belgrave to its Commercial Team

Ignition Law is delighted to welcome Ashrelle Parker-Belgrave as a Commercial Associate in the firm’s Commercial Team. Bringing experience from both private practice and an innovative legal startup, Ashrelle advises founders, startups and SMEs on commercial contracts, technology agreements and data protection matters. She joins Ignition with a passion for helping growing businesses succeed and a keen interest in the opportunities that emerging technologies present for the legal sector.

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22nd October 2026

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