Start with the problem. Not the product.

I'm about to sign a contract I don't understand

I want out of a business contract

Someone says I've breached a contract

The other side has breached our contract

I'm doing business without proper contracts

My contracts are scattered everywhere

I don't know when contracts renew or expire

A contract has automatically renewed and I didn't expect it

I agreed something verbally and now we disagree about it

My terms and conditions no longer fit how we trade

A customer hasn't paid me

I want to recover a debt myself

A customer is disputing my invoice

A customer keeps promising to pay but doesn't

I don't have a proper debt collection process

I'm owed money but my evidence is poor

A customer wants a payment plan

A major customer is in financial difficulty

I've received a statutory demand or insolvency threat

I'm worried a customer will disappear before paying

A supplier isn't delivering what was promised

I'm about to sign B2B equipment finance

My financed equipment doesn't work properly

The supplier and finance company are blaming each other

Someone wants me to sign a personal guarantee

I've already signed a personal guarantee and I'm worried

I need to terminate a supplier

My supplier has suddenly increased its prices

A critical supplier has failed

I'm locked into an expensive service agreement

I've received a solicitor's letter

I've received a court claim

Someone is threatening to sue my business

I need to send a letter before action

I need to respond to allegations quickly

I want to settle a commercial dispute

I'm considering mediation

I need to organise evidence for a dispute

Litigation costs are getting out of control

I need to decide whether a claim is commercially worth pursuing

My business partner/shareholder relationship has broken down

I'm thinking about giving someone shares

A shareholder wants to leave

I want to remove a director

A director has left and joined a competitor

A former director is damaging the business

We never put a shareholders' agreement in place

Founders disagree about who owns what

I'm worried a director is acting against the company

I need to bring a new founder or senior person into the business

Someone wants to invest in my company

I need investment but don't know where to start

An investor wants a percentage of my business

I don't know how much my business is worth

I need to prepare my business for investment

I've been offered a convertible loan or similar funding

I need working capital quickly

I want to bring in a strategic investor

I need to understand what an investor is asking me to sign

I need to get commercially ready before approaching funders

I want to sell my business

I want to buy another business

I'm buying assets rather than shares

I'm selling assets rather than shares

I've received an offer for my business

I need to prepare my company for sale

I'm handing the business to an employee or management team

I want to restructure how my businesses are held

I'm entering a joint venture

I need to unwind a business relationship or joint venture

I don't know whether my business owns its IP

A contractor created something for us – who owns it?

Someone is copying our brand or content

I want to protect a new product, process or idea

I'm licensing my IP to another business

I want to commercialise IP we already own

A former employee/director has taken confidential information

I'm sharing confidential information with a potential partner

I don't have proper NDAs/confidentiality controls

Our valuable know-how exists only in people's heads and inboxes

I need to engage a consultant or freelancer

I'm not sure whether someone should be an employee or contractor

A key employee is leaving for a competitor

I want to incentivise a senior person commercially

A customer relationship is breaking down

A major client wants us to accept their contract

A customer is demanding compensation

I've made a mistake for a customer and need to manage the fallout

I need to renegotiate an important commercial relationship

I rely too heavily on one customer

Nobody really runs legal in my business

I don't know what contracts my business has

I don't know where our key business evidence is stored

We don't have a process for approving contracts

We don't know which problems should be escalated

We repeatedly make the same commercial mistakes

I don't know what legal/commercial risks could seriously hurt us

We have grown but our commercial processes haven't

I want to make the business less dependent on me

I want a Legal HQ system that keeps the business commercially organised