LEGAL
Every entrepreneur needs a strong legal foundation. The Consulting Lab harnesses 30 years' of professional experience in commercial, and contract law for some of the world's largest companies, and makes it available to entrepreneurs in a cost-effective manner. And do please enjoy our "no legal jargon" guarantee.
Robust Commercial Contracts, we use our years of commercial legal experience to give you contracts which work today and grow as you grow through funding stages and beyond
Save £££s, our innovative fee options (no huge hourly billing rates) can be tailored to suit your needs, leaving you with cash flow certainty
Demystifying The Legal World, we avoid legal jargon and explain everything to you in layman’s terms. A contract is only any good if you fully understand what it says, and how to enforce it – we ensure both are the case
Why Consulting Lab?
Legal support and nous are essential for young businesses, whether you’re starting an online business, bringing a new product to market, negotiating with suppliers, writing Ts & Cs for a service, registering patents, licensing intellectual property, or agreeing terms with investors. Almost everything requires a contract that protects you and your interests now, and into the future.
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At Consulting Lab, our goal is to empower young businesses with the ability to grow in as risk-free a way as possible. In the legal world, that doesn’t just mean taking a contract template and hoping it fits your business, it is essential that you protect your commercial interests, minimise contractual risk, and set up to ensure that protracted legal negotiations don’t form a barrier to funding or growth.
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Our team has over 30 years of supporting some of the largest businesses in the world. Our one-stop-shop provides every legal framework that a young business needs to succeed, alongside the expert commercial advice that you need to negotiate with funders and VCs.
Managed Legal Services, our lawyers work closely with you to prepare a schedule of all the contracts you will need, and ensure they are ready when you need them. We’ll even handle commercial negotiations if you want.
Reduced Contractual Risks, all our work includes a free legal risk assessment by a top lawyer, which will help you avoid common causes of delay, overspending, and failure
Confident In The Future, remove the stress of legal worries as we produce “contract cheat sheets” to help you navigate key contractual terms without legal help
We don't empower founders with legal templates - we do it with expertise, commercial support and a true business partnership model that prepares you to grow your business:
Protecting Your Investment
Lawyers in the startup world should be about protecting your investment, managing your risks, and delivering high-quality, value-added business advice which helps you grow. Sadly, the reality often doesn’t reflect this – which is one of the reasons the Consulting Lab exists. Controlling your costs, risk exposure, and commercial outcomes are the fundamentals of most legal work – our job is to ensure that you benefit from our experience, helping you to de-risk your business and maximise your opportunities.
RISK
Most contracts carry an element of risk, particularly those lengthy, complex ones with funders, suppliers, and partners. When you’re starting out, most of the parties you’ll contract with possess more expertise and power than you – so it’s important to recognise that, and then deal with it. Risk management looks at what happens if things go wrong, with a view to ensuring that you minimise your contractual risks, completing every deal with your eyes open with respect to any potential consequences down the line. Proper contract management processes are key to avoiding heavy fines, costly litigation, missed savings, revenue loss, and broken relationships – the Consulting Lab’s contractual risk management framework makes sure you have the processes you need to control your contractual risks.
COMMERICAL
Excellent legal work is not just about getting the language right or ensuring that contracts reflect everyone’s negotiated position. It must also provide a level of commercial experience which enables you to get a ‘good deal’, one which is done on favourable commercial terms as well as providing you with the requisite level of protection. Unlike most contract work, the Consulting Lab’s involvement with you doesn’t end when the ink is dry on contract signatures – we are a long-term strategic partner which both advises and works with you throughout your founder journey.
VALUE-ADD
The main goal of young businesses is to grow revenue and customers. Contrary to this goal, most back-office processes drain entrepreneurs’ energy and focus and, normally, doesn’t represent their skillset sweet spot. Which is where we come in. Our expertise is in forging strategic partnerships, giving you the value-added benefit of our commercial experience across a range of disciplines. What does that mean in practice? It means that when you engage the Consulting Lab for legal work you are getting a whole lot more – whether you need commercial advice, support with pitching to investors, help to raise funds, or sorting out problems with how your business is running, we’re on hand to provide the help you need to be successful.
Whether you’re just setting out on your journey, protecting your intellectual property, building your team, expanding supplier relationships, taking on new customers, or raising funds, the Consulting Lab is the strategic partner you’ve been waiting for. We bring together our professional services across the legal, finance, and project management domains to ensure you get a great service – and a great deal.