An introduction and overview to equity fundraising, borrowing and lending
We know that financing for your business can be crucial at a number of stages, from startups and growing businesses to acquisitions to mature growth and refinancing.
Our extensive expertise means that our corporate lawyers and solicitors can anticipate lenders’ or investors’ requirements and concerns to guide you through the process accordingly, ensuring transactions do not become derailed and unduly protracted.
How our solicitors can help you with equity fundraising, borrowing and lending
Key services offered
We can help both investors and businesses at all stages, whether looking to put in place traditional or more innovative sources of finance, including:
- institutional lending (including bank borrowing)
- angel investor funding
- friends and family funding
- crowdfunding and other alternative investment mechanisms
Why choose RFB Legal for equity fundraising, borrowing and lending
About our Corporate and Commercial Law team
As well as advising on technical legal matters (including security), we can help streamline the process by providing broader assistance on other aspects, including:
- structuring to make the most of available reliefs and exemptions
- regulatory issues
- business disputes
Client expertise
Our recent experience includes:
Early-stage Tech Start-up
We acted for a start-up developing a disruptive, market-transforming health-tech solution using state-of-the-art technology and sciences with guidance from healthcare professionals, consultants and input of info from personal users on their measurable psychological and health benefits. £1m from a series of initial individual angel investors. The amount being invested was significant for a tech start-up and represented an interesting challenge given the number of parties involved, personal family early seed investment and the fact that a founder of the business was now requiring record of their investment in UK law and Portuguese law while the business operated in the UK.
Business Borrowing
We have extensive experience of acting on more traditional lending transactions, for lenders and borrowers. We have particular experience in the real estate finance sector, both in terms of directors loan agreements for property investment and development companies, borrowing to finance acquisitions, such as hotel and wedding venue business, but also in other related contexts such as property development and real estate joint ventures. The flexibility of our lawyers means that we advise on arrangements ranging from relatively small facilities to loans of over £100m.
