Welcome to December's edition of Venture, your monthly guide to navigating the legal aspects of business growth, offering expert insights to help you address the legal challenges critical for scaling success.
In this edition we summarise important requirements under UK data protection law, outline why growth shares are a powerful tool for aligning founders and investors, and highlight the role of leaver provisions in protecting equity while ensuring fairness. If there are other issues you’d like us to explore in future editions, please do get in touch.
For early stage companies it may be difficult to know where to start to get up to speed with the various requirements of UK data protection law. Within this article we we've summarised some of the important requirements under UK data protection law, to assist businesses with starting a ‘data protection to do list’.
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Growth shares have become a popular tool for aligning founders, management teams and investors around long-term value creation. For venture-backed businesses, they offer a flexible way to incentivise key talent while protecting existing equity structures. In this article, we explore how growth shares work, why they matter in scaling companies, and what investors should consider when structuring them.
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Leaver provisions protect a company’s equity structure by keeping shares with active contributors, while ensuring fairness for founders who leave involuntarily. This article explains why these terms are central to term sheet negotiations and vital for aligning founder and investor interests.
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Discover resources, guides and FAQs to help your business take the next step in its growth journey.
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Rory Suggett
Partner and Head of Corporate
+44 (0)117 321 8067 +44 (0)7912 270526 r.suggett@ashfords.co.uk View more
