Launching a technology company requires dexterity, and entrepreneurs seeking to do so face challenges ranging from accessing capital to protecting their intellectual property, from recruiting and retaining top talent through to relentlessly pursuing that first market-validating sale.

Rely on a team of lawyers in the UK that is focused on helping start-ups navigate these challenges, with trusted and rounded business advice to help you achieve all of your goals.

You will benefit from a team backed by a big-hitting global brand, so that quality and experience are assured, who are also nimble and imaginative, so we’re not after the quick, transaction-based buck. Work with our emerging growth company lawyers, who have a track record of seeing businesses through from early stage to exit, being the sounding board and building a relationship of trust and confidence along the way.

Several members of our venture team have spent time in industry and they speak the language of technology entrepreneurs. You will also be well-connected to funders, banks and other professionals so that we can open doors and make things happen, or simply tap our network for insightful advice.

We support you as you expand, using our cost-effective regional base in Milton Keynes, the targeted thought-leadership of our London office, and our overseas network of operations that stretches from China to Silicon Valley. You will receive market-leading experience in all the legal disciplines you might need, covering IP protection and exploitation, R&D and collaboration, confidentiality, licensing, procurement, outsourcing, franchising and distribution, IT, software licensing, data protection, employment, employee incentives, immigration and more.

In addition, tap into Dentons' unparalleled resources for startups and emerging growth companies, including our newly expanded ventureBeyond microsite.

We work with you as partners to an expanding business, and we try to be flexible with our pricing wherever possible so that costs are known in advance. Above all, be confident that we never lose sight of where a business is on its growth curve, and we seek to make that trajectory as smooth and successful as possible.

Recognition

Dentons announces new partners

March 28, 2018

Dentons announces the promotion of 36 new partners from the Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and Caribbean, Singapore, UK and Middle East and United States regions of the Firm. The new partners represent a range of practices, sectors and industries.

Insights

Global Guide to Autonomous Vehicles 2024

May 29, 2024

The Dentons 2024 Global Guide to Autonomous Vehicles summarizes key AV regulatory developments worldwide, aligning with broader societal goals of integrating AVs with public transportation and urban planning. Collaboration among stakeholders reflects a collective push for innovation, safety and public welfare on the roads.

 

UK Freeports

March 12, 2024

United Kingdom: Following Brexit, the UK, Welsh and Scottish governments announced the creation of Freeports across the UK to create jobs, increase international trade, provide regeneration opportunities and serve as hubs for innovation.

Smart contracts in esports: revolutionising the game

March 7, 2024

United Kingdom: Esports has evolved from a niche subculture into a global phenomenon, with millions of fans and a market size of more than US$1 billion. 

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News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Dentons advises Field on its investment from DIF Capital Partners

July 27, 2023

Dentons has advised Field, the renewable energy infrastructure company, on its £200 million investment from DIF Capital Partners (DIF), a leading infrastructure investor with over €15 billion invested across projects in the UK, Europe and Australasia.

Dentons advises Evolution Equity Partners as lead investor on Quantexa's £51 million Series C round

July 31, 2020

Dentons has advised Evolution Equity Partners as lead investor on Quantexa's Series C round which raised a further £51 million. Evolution Equity Partners led the round, with major participation from pre-existing backers Dawn Capital, Albion VC and HSBC.

Dentons to host UK's first accelerator programme for spacetech start-ups

March 29, 2018

Dentons announced today that it will be hosting Space Camp, the UK's first dedicated accelerator programme for start-ups in the spacetech industry. Launched by Seraphim Capital, the world’s only venture capital fund specialising exclusively in spacetech investment, Space Camp is backed by both the UK and European space agencies as well as by corporate partners including Airbus, SES and Surrey Satellite Technology

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