April HUBday | Start Smart: Legal Essentials for Early-Stage Startups

Planning to raise capital? Before moving forward, it’s important to understand the legal fundamentals that underpin a successful capital raising. Whether you're still sounding the market for investment or are in the midst of negotiating a term sheet, this session will equip early-stage founders with necessary legal insights.

Join startup law experts Jasmine and James from Hall & Wilcox Lawyers, as they break down the key legal considerations for raising capital. Both speakers co-lead the firm’s startup accelerator program, Frank Lab, and have experience advising high-growth companies. With experience supporting startups through major transactions, they’ll help with the foundational legal knowledge so you can prepare for what’s next.

What they’ll cover:
🔹 Capital raising process
🔹 Getting investor-ready: legal due diligence
🔹 Investment documents 
🔹 What we’re seeing in the market

Understand the legal implications in this information session with speakers from a startup-savvy space.

Schedule:

5:00pm – Networking drinks  
5:30pm – Presentation/ workshop 
6:00pm – Q&A
6:15pm – Event to conclude  

Tickets are free, but spaces are limited! Register today to avoid disappointment. 

About the Speakers 

Jasmine Koh has experience working across a broad range of corporate and commercial transactions, including M&A, venture capital, corporate structuring, corporate governance, and commercial arrangements. Jasmine’s current practice focuses on M&A, capital raising, venture and private equity transactions, advising emerging growth companies, and legal technology. Jasmine leads the firm’s start-up practice, Frank, runs the ‘Frank Lab’ start-up accelerator program, and works closely with many founders and entrepreneurs in the start-up industry.

James Bull has 14 years of experience as a corporate lawyer, with a practice focused on mergers & acquisitions, corporate advisory, venture capital and start-up capital raising. James acts for buyers and sellers in share sales, asset sales, equity investments and venture capital transactions. His clients include private and public companies, venture capital funds, startups, investors, family-owned businesses, government departments and SMEs. James regularly works with technology businesses but has experience across a wide range of industries including food & beverage, agriculture, financial services, manufacturing and retail.