Start-up law
Personalised legal services for start-ups, investors, buyers and sellers
Founded by Karishma Naravane, a senior corporate lawyer with over a decade’s experience at Allen & Overy (now A&O Shearman), one of the world’s largest firms, Nova Lexa’s USP is simple. We provide sound personalised legal advice using a truly commercial approach.
We have extensive experience in advising founders, companies, investors and financial institutions on a range of transactions like acquisitions, disposals, capital raising, structuring and in providing general corporate advice. Our experience ranges across several sectors like tech, AI, healthcare, travel, financial services and retail.
At Nova Lexa, we take pride in providing that personal touch, and Karishma will be actively involved in each matter, ensuring that you receive senior-led, high-quality legal advice - every single time.
Being a start-up ourselves, we understand the importance of keeping an eye on costs. We provide simple and transparent fee quotes tailored to your needs, and stick to them.
We would love to be part of your journey!
Karishma Naravane
Founding Partner
karishma@novalexa.co.uk
Areas of Practice
With extensive multi-sector M&A experience, we are here to support Buyers and Sellers in their ventures, as well as Founders in other forms of exits and collaboration strategies (e.g. management buyouts, restructuring, partial sales, joint ventures).
We are here with you from due diligence and risk assessment (using latest legal tech and AI for greater efficiency), preparing and negotiating sale documentation to signing and completing the transaction, as well as to guide you on post-completion actions. We also act as UK counsel in cross-border transactions.
Strategic and structuring advice
We help with preparing option agreements (HMRC approved and unapproved) to incentivise employees and advisors, ensuring long-term growth whilst protecting company interests.
We help companies with implementing structural changes to achieve efficient tax structures or for other strategic reasons through a range of corporate actions like asset and business transfers, intra-group arrangements and movement of subsidiaries.
We also provide general strategic and corporate law and governance advice, including implementing changes to cap tables, capital reductions and compliance with Companies House requirements.
Key company documents
As you start customising and scaling your company, we can support you with preparing, negotiating and managing your bespoke articles of associations and co-founder / shareholders’ agreements, ensuring key long-term protections are built in.
Fundraising
From family & friends, angel and pre-seed rounds to larger VC investments and series rounds, we’ve got you covered for all the documentation. We regularly act for founders and investors, giving us extensive cross-industry and BVCA experience.
Advance subscription (ASA) and SAFE agreements
Sales, Purchases and other Strategic Exits and Ventures
EMI and other Option Arrangements
For those in-between times when you need funding before a full round, we can help with drafting and negotiating ASAs or SAFE agreements, to suit the needs of your company, always staying fully compliant with HMRC requirements (for EIS / SEIS investments).
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
– Edmund Burke
Get in Touch
We would love to hear from you and about your business - please do get in touch by sending an enquiry by email or book in a complimentary call.