LaunchPad Pro

LaunchPad Pro gives early stage technology companies access to leading lawyers at affordable fixed costs.

When you are developing game-changing technology, you need innovative lawyers that understand the way you work and give you the flexibility to concentrate on getting your products and services to market.

At Mills & Reeve, we take the time to understand your business, your sector but most importantly, your culture, and have put together a set of subscription options that allow you to pay for legal services in the same way you pay for other utilities, or indeed the way you bill your customers and clients.

Subscription options

Our LaunchPad Pro support packages are designed to cover the key areas for which your growing technology business is likely to need legal or strategic advice. They give you an opportunity to ‘try before you buy’ our full legal services.

There are three levels of subscription available to qualifying companies, with each level offering different benefits...

Our support packages

You can subscribe to any or all of the following packages...

Company and investors
Whatever stage your business is at, you need advisors that will give you practical, commercial advice that lets you get on with your day-today operations.

Our Company and investors package includes advice on:
- Incorporating your business venture
- Getting your company structure right
- Preparing/checking your statutory registers
- Bespoke articles
- Initial Board set-up
- PSC analysis
- Basic shareholder arrangements
- Options for investment
- Getting your share capital investment ready
Customer & supplier relationships and partnering
The relationships you form with customers and suppliers can dramatically effect every part of your organisation and how it operates. The LaunchPad Pro team are on hand to ensure you get the right agreements in place, at the right time so you can close a deal knowing everything is in place.

This package covers advice on:
- What to look out for when dealing with customers, suppliers and partners
- Liability and risk in commercial arrangements
- Specific contract clauses
- How to negotiate terms
- How contracts can be entered into
- Effective termination of contracts
- How to proactively manage contracts to reduce the risk of litigation
- What to do next when a dispute arises
Intellectual property
Your IP is one of your most valuable assets. We can help you protect your ideas and make the most of any opportunities.

Our IP package includes advice on:
- When, and which, IP rights subsist in your work and products
- Choosing the right brand name & logo
- How and when to protect IP rights through registration
- Investor readiness – we can help you ensure your IP rights are properly protected before discussion with investors
- Enforcing your IP rights
- Exploiting your IP rights through licensing
- Transferring and reorganising ownership of
Data and privacy
Balancing the needs of your business and compliance is vital. We will ensure you comply with a wide range of legislation and regulatory guidance and guide you through the complexities you encounter.

This covers advice around:
- Impact of the GDPR and Data Protection Act
- What you need to do comply with the data protection laws
- What’s allowed in relation to tracking contacts, targeted advertising and direct marketing
- Transferring personal
HR and employment
Attracting and retaining talent is likely to be one of your biggest challenges, no matter what size of business you are. Our team will help your build a successful and stable team of employees, giving you peace of mind and certainty.

Our HR package includes advice on:
- What to look out for in employment law and employment contracts
- Incentivising performance
- Managing conflict

Bespoke packages

Wherever possible, we will try to build a package that is right for you. If the above packages aren't quite what you need, please get in touch and we will work together to create something bespoke for you and your organisation.

Top-up hours

If you are on a Standard or Premium package and are running low on hours you can choose to purchase a one-off additional block of five hours at any time as an alternative to using the discounted rate card. All top-ups must be used within your current 12 month subscription period.

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