Advice designed for the way the business actually operates.
Corporate work is rarely just a sequence of documents. The legal structure needs to reflect how capital will be raised, how decisions will be made, what future investors will expect and how the business can move quickly when an opportunity appears. We work with management teams early, before a term sheet or transaction timetable turns optional choices into fixed constraints.
For venture-backed businesses, we advise on founder arrangements, employee equity, seed and growth financings, shareholder rights, board governance and secondary transactions. We keep an eye on the next financing round so that today’s solution does not create an avoidable negotiation point six months later.
On M&A and strategic transactions, our teams coordinate legal diligence, transaction documents, disclosure, regulatory workstreams and closing mechanics. We focus on issues that influence value or execution risk rather than producing long lists of points that have no practical consequence.
Cross-border matters are coordinated through our European offices, with local counsel brought in where a transaction requires jurisdiction-specific advice outside our own coverage. One lead partner remains accountable for the commercial outcome and timetable.
How we run matters
Structure before drafting
We start with the ownership, governance and economic outcome the parties need, then build the documents around that structure.
Control the critical path
We identify approvals, diligence items, financing conditions and regulatory dependencies early so they do not become closing-day surprises.
Keep the cap table usable
Financing and incentive structures are tested against future rounds, employee growth and likely exit scenarios.
Representative experience
Advised a European software group on a cross-border acquisition funded through a mix of cash and rollover equity, coordinating diligence across four jurisdictions, management incentive arrangements and post-closing governance.
Cross-border delivery
Lexbridge teams coordinate matters through our offices in Berlin, London, Brussels, Bratislava, Prague, Amsterdam and Dublin. Where local law advice is required outside our own coverage, we instruct specialist local counsel while retaining a single Lexbridge lead for scope, communication and delivery.
That structure gives clients one accountable team without pretending that complex cross-border work can be reduced to a single jurisdiction. It also allows legal advice to stay aligned with commercial timelines, product launches and board decisions.