Equity funding

Businesses and investors look to Lindsays for astute commercial advice throughout the investment process, from due diligence, investment, scaling up to successful trading and potentially exit.

Are you an early-stage, start-up or scale-up company looking for investment? Or an investor looking to support innovative ventures – particularly those emerging from Scotland’s thriving tech sector?

Our experienced corporate and technology lawyers will offer you responsive, commercially focused advice. Using a practical, partner-led approach, we support businesses and investors from the earliest stages of growth through to planning for the next funding round or exit.

Supporting businesses

At Lindsays, we regularly advise start-ups, spinouts, and scale-ups on raising finance, including through private equity and venture capital – or even crowdfunding schemes. We can also help you long before that, making sure you structure your business effectively and manage intellectual property (IP), contracts, and other legal matters in a way that will attract investors.

We can also coordinate with our colleagues in other teams – from commercial property to employment law – to get your business investment-ready.

Once you’re in good shape to engage with investors, we’ll support you through the entire process – from dealing with heads of terms, to negotiating the investment agreement, to planning and preparing for your next stages of growth.

Supporting investors

We act for a full range of business investors, including high-net-worth individuals, angel syndicates, and other early-stage investment specialists. Our clients include both Scottish-based and international investors.

Whether it’s your first investment or the latest of many, we’ll take you through each legal stage from due diligence to exit. Thanks to our experience of working with business owners and leading angel investors, we know what’s needed to get everyone a successful outcome.