Legal Aspects of Business Start-up

Recent publications on business start-up have addressed a range of commercial and financial issues faced by the creators of new businesses.

This work tackles legal aspects of the business start-up stage.

The opening chapters deal with the legal options for the underlying structure of the new business and outline the advantages and disadvantages of trading in partnership, as a company or as a sole trader.

The next section develops the theme and explains methods of financing the business.

The remaining chapters address the questions of insurance, taxation, employment law and intellectual property rights.

The approach adopted is essentially practical, outlining the relevant law and the steps to be taken to secure legal protection.

The intended readership of the book includes not only legal practitioners, but anyone whose task it is to advise people setting up new businesses, and the book is designed to inform advisers on a range of legal issues which should be addressed at the start-up stage.

It should also be of interest to business people themselves.