Nexa Legal acts for founders, startups and scaleups, as well as for innovation focused investors. Our services focus on what emerging companies and investors actually need in the way of legal support and how we can add value to their businesses.
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We understand the challenges of growing a business from scratch. Whether you and your company are just getting started or well advanced on your journey, we are here to support your growth. Our services to emerging companies are designed to provide founders, startups and scaleups with flexibility and control over their legal spend, while still gaining access to our deep expertise. Here's how we can help.
Raising capital is one of the key challenges that many founders and emerging companies face. We have deep experience advising companies at all stages of growth on a range of capital raisings, including pre-seed – series C financing rounds involving venture capital and other investors, equity crowdfunding rounds and debt financing rounds.
We provide support on the key commercial arrangements that you face when building a business, including advising on founders' and shareholders' agreements, employee share option plans and commercial agreements with third parties. We offer strategic, practical and commercially focused advice to ensure your business manages legal risk in your contractual and commercial arrangements as it grows.
Scaling a business can be fast paced, but founders and companies need to be aware of the corporate, legal and regulatory obligations that apply to both directors and companies. We help companies navigate these responsibilities so that you can focus on doing what you do best - growing your business.
We advise on M&A transactions including secondary transactions / founder sell-downs, share sale transactions and asset sale transactions. If your business matures to the point where there is opportunity for an M&A transaction, we can steer you through this process.
We advise on employment, contractor and advisor agreements, as well as on employee incentive schemes to help your business attract and retain talent.
We can help you to protect your key intellectual property and brand assets to give you confidence as you grow and scale.
Nexa GC is a flexible legal solution which gives you access to our top tier expertise for a set number of hours per month, determined by you, to be used on the legal matters which are most important to your business. Through Nexa GC, we play the role of your legal partner, providing highly customised, integrated and cost-effective legal support for your business.
Nexa GC is a perfect solution for startups and scaleups with regular legal needs but who do not yet have a full time in-house legal resource, as well as for in-house legal teams who need some extra expertise or support in peak periods or on a particular project.
Our team has extensive experience helping innovation focused investors, including venture capital, corporate and angel investors, execute and manage their investments. Our experience includes:
Having acted for a range of investors and held senior in-house legal positions within a venture fund, we understand that each investor has a different risk profile, investment mandate and approach to deploying capital. Our advice to investors is tailored to their investment objectives and the stage and which they are investing. Whatever your investment focus, we will help you execute your investments with confidence.
If you are interested in finding out more about how we can partner with your business, please contact us. We would love to speak with you.
Nexa Legal supports Australia’s best founders, startups and scaleups to grow their businesses, as well as the innovation focused investors who invest in them.
