At Accelerate Law, we aren’t standard legal advisors; we become your trusted in-house lawyer, working on an entirely flexible basis to provide clients with the benefits of an in-house lawyer without hiring one. We represent an incredibly diverse range of clients, and our expertise spans the entire spectrum of legal services required by startups and investors in the UK entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Our team of startup lawyers is here to support startups in the UK and internationally so that they can confidently overcome or anticipate any legal challenge with us efficiently, proactively and to the highest standards. We work closely with you to understand your specific needs at every stage of your startup journey, from launch to funding to expanding and beyond. As startup lawyers in London, we pride ourselves on offering tech-enabled solutions that simplify complex legal matters and ensure you have the peace of mind needed to be investment ready.
We specialise in startup company lawyer services, providing strategic advice, legal support, and smart contracts. Our commitment is to make legal services accessible, cost-effective, and efficient to any founder. Whether you need legal advice for an individual project like launching your app or product, fundraising, EMI Schemes, or exits and M&A, or you require ongoing legal services for startup companies and investors, we're here to tailor a solution to your unique needs.
Our fundraising expertise includes working with London VCs and angels on seed stage startups and Series A startups, and assisting with raising seed capital or raising pre-seed funding.
At Accelerate Law, we understand that startups need more than just legal guidance. We offer startup law consultation, making sure you have legal services that align with your growth strategies and ensure that your legal foundation is as robust as your business vision.
Expertise includes:
Startup Legal Strategy
Legal Project Management
Contract Drafting and Review
Investment and Funding Expertise
Corporate Legal Services
Commercial Contracts
Employment Law
Share Options
Intellectual Property
Legal Consultation
Smart Contracts
Whether you're at the start, launch, fund, scale, or exit stage, we work as your dedicated in-house legal team, guiding you through your pivotal moments. With Accelerate Law as your in-house lawyers, you can focus on growing your business with confidence, knowing that you have the best startup lawyers in the UK on your side.
What our clients say
I’ve been around a few years now and in summary, you want these guys on your team (and definitely not on the other team!). Laura is a real expert who cares about your business and its success. She has gotten to know me, my team, how we work and make sure what she does reflects our own special Inspiring Interns character. A top level service from first class people who have restored my trust in working with lawyers. Cheers.
Ben Rosen
Founder, Inspiring Interns
We wanted better, more practical and cost effective legal resources and that’s exactly what we have achieved with appointing Accelerate Law. In particular, the commercial contracts are simpler, cleaner, and tighter. Since working with Accelerate Law, contract disputes or issues have significantly been reduced, saving us lots of time and effort. Simon is excellent, he understands some complex issues and relationships and is very good at responding to the specific questions asked in a clear and concise manner. I would definitely recommend Accelerate Law for all the above: commercial, efficient and effective legal advice that works for our investment business needs.
William Hutchings
Co-Founder and Partner, ABLT Investments
Accelerate Law gave us the agile, startup style legal support that helped us level up our operations as we moved from ‘startup’ to ‘scaleup’ and targeted an exit. With more and more commercial deals, shareholders to manage, and a growing team to incentivise, Accelerate Law’s flexible in-house model worked perfectly for Arthur Online. When we were being acquired by a large multinational, Simon and the team’s advice and guidance was crucial throughout the M&A process. Right from the due diligence phase, throughout negotiating deal terms and documents to completion, the team worked intensively with us to get the deal done before the new year. A great experience and we’ll see you on our next venture!
Rochelle Trup
Co-Founder, Arthur Online (exited to Aareon AG)
The Accelerate Law team have been BYP’s trusted advisors from the very start. From advising us on our commercial partnerships stuctures, to completing our freelance and employment agreements, to running our successful seed funding round, we get quality, attention, value for money and the guidance we need to keep growing at pace. Highly recommend.
Kike Oniwinde
Founder and CEO, BYP Network
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