Jake is joined by James Winfield, a consultant in the Ignition Law Wills & Estate Planning team who has more than 19 years’ experience advising business owners, high net worth individuals and families on matters ranging from succession planning and estate administration, to wills, trusts and inheritance tax planning.

Together, we discuss the main reasons why business owners and leaders don’t tend to plan for the worst, the succession planning documents and processes you should consider as early as possible; wills, lasting powers of attorney, shareholders’ agreements and cross-option agreements; and certain tax rules that can benefit (or hinder) business owners if not effectively navigated.

In this episode, we explore the founding of NOVOS, its early legal challenges, how the business scaled, how its legal requirements evolved over time, and the drivers behind transferring ownership to employees.

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of 

entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.

Together, we explore the various ways a business can “exit”, we consider key challenges to a successful exit and the importance of preparing for these challenges in advance, and we discuss how a business can get exit ready, from a business and legal perspective.

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of 

entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.

In this episode, we explore the meaning of culture and values, we consider how getting the culture right can benefit organisations both internally and externally, and we discuss the various steps taken by St Luke’s and Ignition Law to foster strong cultures that resonate with stakeholders across the board.

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of 

entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.

In this episode, we explore the regulation of advertising in the UK, including the distinction between broadcast and other forms of advertising, the words and phrases that attract particular scrutiny, and how businesses can mitigate the risk of violating the many rules that apply to testimonials, influencer campaigns, native advertising and pricing promotions.

Prior to joining Ignition Law, Emma trained at Magic Circle firm Freshfields, before moving to Norton Rose’s Paris office. She subsequently moved back to London joined the in-house teams at Sky, Diageo and Selfridges, and has also worked as a legal consultant at a number of global companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Starbucks. Next, she lived and worked in Melbourne for 4 years and qualified as an Australian lawyer, before moving to Singapore with her family at the start of this year to take up a General Counsel role for a beauty company, alongside her role at Ignition Law.  Her roles have involved advising on a broad range of commercial matters, with a particular focus on marketing and advertising.

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of 

entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.

In this episode, we delve into the various ways you can hire or engage people, how to decide which worker status classification to go for, the legal risks involved in getting it wrong, and how these risks can be mitigated.

Our guest, Polly Jeanneret, is a former City lawyer with over 20 years’ experience advising businesses in the HR space. She is now a Senior Consultant in the Ignition Law employment team.

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of 

entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.

In this episode, we delve into the disputes that start-ups most commonly face, and how these can often be avoided. This includes consideration of disputes involving founders, shareholders, suppliers, customers and other stakeholders; how costly these can become; how they are usually resolved; and how they could potentially have been avoided in the first place.

Our guest, Tammy Evans, has worked in a range of contentious practices in the City, gaining extensive experience across a wide range of commercial litigation, mediation and arbitration on a national and international level. During this time, she represented clients in the High Court and Court of Appeal, and before numerous arbitral bodies. She now heads up Ignition Law’s dispute resolution practice.

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of 

entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.

In this episode, we look at an overview of key employment contract terms, terms governing the day-to-day employee/employer relationship, junior vs senior employment contracts, common restrictions included in employment contracts, equity and bonus provisions and finally what can go wrong when employment contracts aren’t drafted properly.

Our guest Nicky Cranfield trained at Eversheds LLP, where she worked in both the international employment law team co-ordinating multi-jurisdictional projects, and the core UK team advising employers across a range of sectors. She then worked with senior executives at Fox Williams LLP, before moving to Shanghai for three years. On her return to the UK, Nicky gained valuable in-house experience at Amazon, assisting with their employee-side GDPR preparations, before joining Ignition Law in 2020 (where she heads up the employment team).

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law  

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of  

entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.

This includes the types of creations that copyright covers, how copyright protection arises, how long it lasts, whether a business automatically owns the copyright in works created by its employees and contractors, and what can go wrong if copyright isn’t properly considered.

Our guest, Hannah Jones, worked at Magic Circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for 13 years, advising on a wide range of commercial, intellectual property and technology-related matters, as well as high-value corporate transactions. She also worked in-house at Reuters Group (now Thomson Reuters) and Lloyds Banking Group, before joining Ignition Law in early 2020 (where she heads up the firm’s intellectual property practice). 

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.

In this episode, we explore the pros and cons of setting up as a limited company, the legal steps that this entails, why these are important and how to get them right, and the importance of drawing up a shareholders’ agreement as early as possible. 

Prior to joining Ignition in 2016, Helen worked at Magic Circle firm Freshfields for many years (in both London and New York), as well as at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in New York and Linklaters in London. She has also undertaken secondments to Goldman Sachs, Alcentra, Barings, Barclays Bank PLC and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. In addition, Helen is also an entrepreneur, having founded SnowDrone Transfers in 2014, a private transport company with a fleet of 30 vehicles operating across the French Alps.

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.

In this episode, we delve into funding rounds, including why businesses need funding, when they should seek funding, key sources of capital, the legal steps involved, key terms to negotiate, and an insight into what can go wrong when rounds aren’t properly managed.

Our guest, Alex McPherson, worked at Freshfields and Hogan Lovells as a corporate lawyer, before setting up Ignition Law in 2015. Ignition has grown exponentially to a team of roughly 80 and is now an award-winning law firm, with strong ethics and a majority female senior leadership team.

Helpful links:

Website - https://ignition.law

Get in touch - https://ignition.law/contact

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/ignition-law  

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ignition.law/?hl=en

Twitter - https://twitter.com/IgnitionLaw

Ignition Law is an award-winning, internationally-minded, full-service law firm, with significant experience spanning pretty much every key industry and sector.

We provide a unique, seamlessly integrated legal services offering that has helped thousands of entrepreneurial and ambitious start-ups, scale-ups, VC-backed SMEs and other high-growth enterprises secure investment, meet their governance obligations and rapidly scale.

This perfectly positions us to support founders and companies through every step of the entrepreneurial journey - from incorporation to exit and beyond – whilst also advising both individuals and institutions looking to sell, acquire or invest in cutting-edge businesses.