How Corporate Documents Enable Startup Success
About This Webinar
The “constitutional documents” of a company play an essential role in protecting the interests of a business, its founders, and its investors over the course of a company’s lifetime. Getting to grips with your legal documents when starting out in business can seem like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be. It is essential to protect your business from the outset and not leave it until it’s too late.
In this 30-minute webinar, James Kearns, General Counsel & Head of Legal Practice at Dragon Argent will go through the below topics to make sure your business is covered if something unexpected happens.
Understand the purpose of a shareholders’ agreement and the articles of association of a company and how they set the “rules of the game” for a business.
Look at some practical scenarios to understand why these corporate documents are so important and how they protect the long-term interests of founders and businesses.
Learn what should be considered when agreeing your constitutional documents and where some pitfalls may lie.
Date & Time: Thursday, November 25 at 2 pm (GMT)
Location: Zoom link will be share via email after registration.
Agenda:
2:00pm - Welcome and Introduction
2:05pm - James Kearns’ Talk
2:30pm - Open Q&A
2:55pm - Wrap up and next steps
3:00pm - End session
About James Kearns
General Counsel & Head of Legal Practice, Dragon Argent
Commercially astute and risk-aware, James is an accomplished lawyer with a wealth of experience as a corporate and commercial solicitor for start-ups & SMEs in the UK. James advises on a variety of matters including share and asset sales, equity investments, corporate reconstruction, shareholders’ agreements, and a broad range of commercial contracts, in each case across a variety of industry sectors. James joined Dragon Argent as General Counsel in 2017, having previously worked in private practice at Collyer Bristow LLP.
Before practising law, James worked at a local newspaper, and later as a law reporter covering judgments given at the High Court and Court of Appeal. He then moved into publishing, working as a commissioning editor for two major legal publishing houses where he oversaw the commercial development of a large portfolio of print and online titles.