Start-Up Visa

Where do you see yourself and your business idea in five years’ time? If you see yourself with a thriving UK business, the start-up visa may be your route to global mobility and business success in the UK.

IMD Solicitors specialise in helping international businesses succeed in the UK. With the start-up visa, our business immigration lawyers can help you from day one of the beginning of your journey to business success in the UK.

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The start-up visa route for entrepreneurs

If you are an entrepreneur keen to set up an innovative business in the UK, the start-up visa may be your route to success. The business immigration team can help with:

assessing if the start-up visa is your best visa route
advising on whether your business plan is likely to secure endorsement from an endorsing body at stage one of the application process
guidance on the eligibility criteria for the second stage of the start-up visa application process
switching from the start-up to the innovator visa as a route to UK settlement

Marcin Durlak

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Starting your global mobility journey with IMD Solicitors

From the journey of their own entrepreneurial founders to the UK, IMD Solicitors understand, that when you are setting up a business in the UK, you don’t just need specialist business immigration advice but also help with legal issues such as company formation, commercial contracts, IP law and data protection, business regulation, employment and commercial property law. As a full-service law firm, IMD Solicitors can help you with every aspect of making your business a success in the UK.

IMD Solicitors have offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester, and in a number of European cities, with a plethora of trusted partners throughout Europe. We resolve UK and EU based disputes, corporate transactions and commercial law matters that are governed by UK or EU law.

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List of notable commercial cases

Advising one of the largest European banks on a number of occasions in respect of validity and construction of guarantees and on demand bonds, together with validity of agreements varying the guarantees and the underlying multi-million facility agreements.
Advising on the establishment of a large entertainment company. Preparing various corporate and investment documents and leading extensive negotiations of shareholder agreement and ancillary documents. In addition, we provided various legal support to the company on on-going basis.
Acting for a major automotive manufacturer in a joint venture with a UK company to commence production and distribution on the product in the UK and the Commonwealth. Negotiating and preparing all the relevant joint venture documents.
Acting for the construction company in a large scale building project of circa £25m. Involved in negotiating an extensive JCT D&B contract as between our client (main contractor) and the local authority who were their client in this project.
Drafting Terms & Conditions and Warranty terms for a leading UK manufacturer of steel doors, windows and partitions.
Representing a sub-contractor in construction contract negotiations involving a large number of parties for construction of a museum in Kuwait.
Advising on and drafting SaaS (Software as a Service) contract for the Client entering the UK market
Advising on both pro-supplier and pro-customer Software Development Agreements for various Clients
Advised a technology start up to set up and validate a messaging app, a direct competitor to Facebook’s Messenger
Advising the client on and negotiating terms of corporate and personal guarantees tied to a cross-border commercial contract.
Assisting a charity in preparation of various terms and conditions and contractual agreements.
Advising the client on the terms of a joint venture agreement in an innovative waste management project.
Advised the first Polish-owned bridging company in the UK
Advising the client on the validity of execution of a number of international corporate finance agreements.