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BPE has helped a range of startups to get off the ground, providing guidance on everything; from forming your business entity, to drafting employment contracts.
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Our template Consultancy Agreement is designed for those companies seeking the provision of consultancy services from an independent contractor (a self-employed individual). The Consultancy Agreement can be used for consultants providing professional services and facilitates a non-employment relationship for the purposes of the IR35 or off-payroll working rules.
Our template Director Consent to Act provides you with a simple letter agreement for an individual to consent to act as a director of your company. It includes a table of the information that you will need from the new director in order to update your Company Registers and make the appropriate filing at Companies House.
This customisable Employment Contract is intended for use between a business and employee, who will be hired on a permanent basis. It ensures both parties are aware of their rights and obligations, and includes the basic provisions as required by law.
This template is designed to facilitate the transfer of Intellectual Property rights (IPR) from founders to a company. The legally binding agreement protects both the founder and company, by ensuring that rights and responsibilities are clearly outlined.
This template is designed to enable the mutual sharing of confidential information between two parties, for a specific commercial purpose. The agreement sets out the obligations and rights of the parties, as both a discloser and recipient of confidential information. It ensures that the disclosed information will only be used within the parameters of the defined purpose and the obligation of confidentiality is fully outlined.
This template is designed to enable the sharing of confidential information by one party (the discloser) to another (the recipient), for a specific commercial purpose. It ensures that the disclosed information will only be used within the parameters of the defined purpose and the obligation of confidentiality is fully outlined.
A Privacy Notice is an essential document for any business that collects and uses Personal Data. Our template will help you to meet your data protection obligations, and provide visibility for users of your website and / or services as to how your business appropriately handles personal data.
Minutes must be taken of all directors meetings in accordance with section 248(1), Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006). The minutes should accurately record all decisions and resolutions taken at such meetings. Our template provides your company with a consistent structure for recording the minutes of director meetings.
Articles of association are a mandatory constitutional document required by the Companies Act 2006, for every company incorporated in the United Kingdom. The default ‘model articles’ as prescribed by the Companies Act 2006 will apply, unless a company chooses to vary some of the provisions. Our template largely reflects the model articles for a ‘company limited by shares’ with some common additions and variations.
BPE Solicitors LLP (“BPE” or “we”) has created the BPE Startup Pack (the “Templates”) for use by companies incorporated in England and Wales only (the “Companies”).
The Templates are for general guidance and information for those wishing to set up a company or who have recently done so.
They are therefore provided to you on as ‘as is’ basis at no charge and we make no representations or warranties as to their accuracy or fitness for purpose. All warranties, conditions or terms implied by statute, common law or otherwise are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
The content of the Templates does not amount to legal, tax, financial, or other professional advice and may not necessarily be appropriate to your circumstances. In choosing to download and / or use any of the Templates, you acknowledge that a lawyer-client relationship is not established, and you accept any resulting risk and / or liability arising from use of the Templates where you have not sought further advice from us.
The Templates are the property of BPE Solicitors LLP and are made available to you under a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to use the Templates for your own legitimate personal or internal business purposes with no right for onward sale, distribution or adaptation.
We have not updated the Templates since November 2023 to take into account recent changes in the law, and do not undertake to do so or to provide you with updated copies of Templates. Where a Template has been updated by us, the date of the update shall be shown at the top of the document.
Note: The Templates are for use by and with companies incorporated in England and Wales only.
Our template Register of Applications and Allotments.
Our template Register of Members.
Our template Register of Transfers.
Our template Register of Directors’ Residential Addresses.
Our template Register of Directors.
Our template Register of Secretaries.
Our template Register of People with Significant Control.
Our template Share Certificates.
BPE Solicitors LLP (“BPE” or “we”) has created the BPE Startup Pack (the “Templates”) for use by companies incorporated in England and Wales only (the “Companies”).
The Templates are for general guidance and information for those wishing to set up a company or who have recently done so.
They are therefore provided to you on as ‘as is’ basis at no charge and we make no representations or warranties as to their accuracy or fitness for purpose. All warranties, conditions or terms implied by statute, common law or otherwise are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
The content of the Templates does not amount to legal, tax, financial, or other professional advice and may not necessarily be appropriate to your circumstances. In choosing to download and / or use any of the Templates, you acknowledge that a lawyer-client relationship is not established, and you accept any resulting risk and / or liability arising from use of the Templates where you have not sought further advice from us.
The Templates are the property of BPE Solicitors LLP and are made available to you under a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to use the Templates for your own legitimate personal or internal business purposes with no right for onward sale, distribution or adaptation.
We have not updated the Templates since November 2023 to take into account recent changes in the law, and do not undertake to do so or to provide you with updated copies of Templates. Where a Template has been updated by us, the date of the update shall be shown at the top of the document.
Note: The Templates are for use by and with companies incorporated in England and Wales only.
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No, they are free to use. This is our way of giving back to the start-up community – we are here to help.
Not necessarily, each business is different and has different needs. This selection is designed to give you a choice of some of the documents that we think are most often required by companies in the start-up phase of their development. It is up to you to assess which of them are relevant to your business. If you need further guidance please use the ‘contact us’ form on this page, or feel free to drop us an email at [bpe@bpe.co.uk] and someone will get back to you within two working days.
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