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RWK Goodman is a UK Top 100 law firm providing expert legal support for EIS funds, growing businesses, and other venture and private-equity investors.

With offices spread from Bristol to London, across the M4 corridor, and numbering over 600 people, our dynamic, forward-thinking team of lawyers carefully guide clients through challenges at all stages of their business lifecycle, from S/EIS funding through to exit. Bringing together experts from across the firm, and our external networks, we build a team around you. Carefully selecting the right specialists, with the right skills, to deliver the right results.
Outside of our corporate work for VC funds, PE houses, and scaling businesses, our specialists in commercial contracts, data protection, privacy, intellectual property, real estate, and many other fields, are able to advise on how best to protect investments and scale business.

Find out more about our team and support at rwkgoodman.com/business/corporate

Shakespeare Martineau is a full-service UK law firm with global reach. The firm has a strong private equity and corporate finance practice. We act as solicitors to numerous EIS funds (and companies in receipt of EIS investments) with a particular expertise in EIS fund launches and transaction structuring for EIS investments. Shakespeare Martineau has been voted Best EIS Legal Adviser on several occasions by the EISA. The firm has also been a leader in the VCT market since the mid-90s and is one of the largest providers of legal advice and assistance to the sector. What sets Shakespeare Martineau apart is our uncompromising commitment to know our clients, their business and the regulatory and commercial environment in which they operate and to cultivating long-term relationships with our clients; rather than being a faceless firm that just provides legal advice. Our reputation as a firm that cares and that can be trusted is based on these qualities. Our clients and competitors describe us as having an “approachable, informative and clear style”, being “extremely diligent” and providing “very good, concise (and economical) advice with a good level of commercial thinking”.

Tom is a partner in the tax department at Shoosmiths LLP and heads up the firm’s enterprise investment scheme and venture capital trusts practice. Tom is a Solicitor and Chartered Tax Adviser with extensive experience advising a wide range of investors and investee companies on structuring and implementing tax efficient investments, reorganisations and exits in compliance with the EIS and VCT regimes. Shoosmiths LLP is a major UK law firm with 10 offices across the UK.

Wiggin LLP is a full service media law firm specialising in music, film, TV, broadcast, digital media, sport, betting and gaming, technology and publishing. The firm works with a variety of media clients, from leading industry names to innovative start-ups and entrepreneurs. Wiggin LLP has considerable expertise in setting up EIS schemes acting for both investors and the EIS company. Licensing of intellectual property where the value has been created by the company is expressly allowed under the EIS, thereby enabling companies in the media sector such as TV and film production to qualify. Our advice ranges from obtaining HMRC pre-clearance to structuring the arrangements (including all necessary documentation) and establishing EIS Funds – whether HMRC approved or not (including all regulatory aspects). Sue Crawford is a partner and head of the Tax group. Internationally-recognised as a leader in corporate tax, Sue has particular expertise in the tax issues confronting the film, media, leisure and gaming industries including inward/outward investment to/from the UK.