Services
Incorporation and Consolidation
- Incorporation of the entity best suited to the startup’s interests. Operating protocols and distribution of equity shares
- Preparation of a preliminary shareholders’ agreement; review and amendment of the articles of incorporation
- Preliminary due diligence on the entrepreneur’s personal circumstances regarding the startup’s liability and obligation framework
- Compensation structure for directors and shareholders
Expansion and Growth
- Funding rounds and the onboarding of investor partners for startups
- Corporate planning and restructuring (mergers and acquisitions)
- Sales and purchases of assets and shares, securing financing, establishing guarantees, and due diligence processes
- Acquisition of equity interests
- Capital increases
- Investor relations policy
- Support and advice on financing through venture capital, accelerators, or incubators; support and assistance with business crowdfunding platforms.
- Contract advice; preparation and review of commercial contracts (collaboration, loans, commission/brokerage)
- Outsourcing and lease agreements
- Preparation and drafting of the contracts necessary to ensure sufficient legal certainty for the business model being implemented from a technological standpoint (website, software development, service provision, and confidentiality—NDA, etc.)
- Analysis of the Most Beneficial Employment Relationship for Entrepreneurs
- Selecting the Most Appropriate Type of Employment Contract
- Social Security Obligations for Entrepreneurs, Employees, and Contractors
- Performance-Based Compensation Policies (Variable)
- Analysis of the Economic Impact of Different Employment Arrangements vs. Outsourcing
- Protection mechanisms to safeguard startups’ know-how
- Post-contractual non-compete and exclusivity clauses
- “IT Tools Use Policies”
- Limitations of goodwill, friendship, or family employment contracts
- Legal assistance and defense of startups’ interests in dismissals and disciplinary proceedings.
- Competitive Legal Structuring for Digital Businesses
- Consulting on Compliance and Audits Regarding Privacy and Digital Services
- Drafting of General Terms and Conditions of Use and Contracts
- Legal Protection of Technological Assets, Platforms, or Software Underpinning the Business Model
- Legal Protection of Trademarks, Industrial Designs, Utility Models, and Patentability of Innovations, Where Applicable.
Mechanisms for the protection and the business viability of the start-up; agreement between founding partners and with investor-partners
Preparation and review of any documents and legal assistance for the rounds of funding with incubators, business angels y venture capital, etc.
National protection within the scope of the intellectual property of engines, structures, design, presentation, data bases, software and content, and of industrial property with regard to the patentability of innovations; international protection thanks to patents on IT creations.
Legal prevention and coverage for backdoor employment, whether as a service lease contract (outsourcing) or other.
Adaptation, recommendation and implementation of a compliance policy with regard to the management of confidential information (ISO 27001) and legal support for privacy-related matters.
Legal advice on the new Law 5/2015 fostering business funding.
Application of legal criteria to protect and preserve the new company’s reputation and strategic and business viability.
Recommendations regarding security factors for the adequate implementation of the virtual model.
Formalization and protection of data bases created for business development purposes to comply with current regulations
Limit the degree of exposure and property/personal liability of the entrepreneur with the start-up.
Payroll, social security, submission of Personal Income Tax and VAT returns, corporate bookkeeping and preparation of annual financial statements, among others.
Contact us
At Ceca Magán Abogados we know ideas make the world go round, but we are also aware that a start-up often has to bear cash flow problems too. We aim to have a role beyond the strategic partner: we want to be with you all the way until your dream comes true. If you believe in your business vision, give us a call. Your success is our success.
