# Jonathan Lea Network: Law Specialists

> We specialise in business law services for entrepreneurs, startups, and private companies across Sussex \& the UK\. Speak with our specialists today\.

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## Pages
- [Specialist UK Business Law Solicitors](https://www.jonathanlea.net/)
- [Reviews](https://www.jonathanlea.net/reviews/)
- [Links](https://www.jonathanlea.net/links/)
- [Events at Jonathan Lea Network](https://www.jonathanlea.net/events-jln/)
- [Recruitment](https://www.jonathanlea.net/recruitment/)

## Posts
- [Buying Land with an Overage Clause Attached: What You Are Really Taking On?](https://www.jonathanlea.net/blog/buying-land-with-an-overage-clause/)
- [Mismanaged Estate Administration: When Executors Can Be Removed or Sued for Losses](https://www.jonathanlea.net/blog/mismanaged-estate-administration-executor-removed-sued/)
- [How to Enforce an Earn\-Out Agreement When the Buyer Damages the Business After Completion](https://www.jonathanlea.net/blog/earn-out-dispute-buyer-damages-business/)
- [Inheritance Act 1975 Claims Who Can Claim and What Does the Court Consider?](https://www.jonathanlea.net/blog/inheritance-act-1975-claims/)
- [Enforcement of Judgments: How a CCJ can be Turned Into Real Recovery for Businesses](https://www.jonathanlea.net/blog/ccj-enforcement-debt-recovery/)

## Products
- [Short form legal due diligence questionnaire](https://www.jonathanlea.net/product/short-form-legal-due-diligence-questionnaire/): This product constitutes an easily adaptable, short form, legal due diligence questionnaire for use in relation to share purchases, together with a set of tailored guidance notes explaining some of the key aspects\.

This document contains short form legal due diligence enquiries relating to the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of a private limited company\. Its purpose is to assist the buyer and/or their solicitors in obtaining information and copy documents from the seller for the purposes of carrying out legal due diligence on the proposed acquisition\.

Further down the page are our guidance notes relating to this template which you will also receive as a separate document when you buy the product\.
- [Pre\-Emptive Offer Letter](https://www.jonathanlea.net/product/pre-emptive-offer-letter/): This product constitutes an easily adaptable pre\-emptive offer letter which can be used in order to facilitate the company raising money from its existing shareholders, together with guidance notes to assist you with filling out the pre\-emptive offer letter template\. The guidance notes also briefly explain what statutory pre\-emption rights are and sets out the procedure that must be followed in order for a company to legally make a pre\-emptive offer to its existing shareholders \(in line with the relevant provisions in the Companies Act 2006\)\.

We have kept the template as simple as possible and it will therefore not be relevant to every scenario\. The template will need to be adapted depending on the company and the circumstances of each case and further detail will need to be added for example if the statutory pre\-emption rights have been varied by a shareholders agreement or within the company's articles of association\. In such a case, the letter will need to make references to the relevant provisions within those documents instead\.

The only drafting that needs to be done from your side is to insert the relevant information into the square brackets \(where your input is required has been highlighted in yellow\)\. The wording inside the square brackets which we have included explains clearly the information that should be inserted\. You are advised to fill in the wording in square brackets in lower case\. Any figures should be entered in numerical form\. The brackets should be removed after the amendments are made \(so as to produce a 'final form' version of the pre\-emptive offer letter to be sent to the company's existing shareholders\)\.
- [Shareholders' Agreement Deed of Adherence](https://www.jonathanlea.net/product/shareholders-agreement-deed-of-adherence/): This clearly word template deed of adherence can be easily adapted for when a new shareholder of a company obtains shares and is required to be added as a party to, and be bound by, any shareholders' agreement already in place\.

\<strong\>When to use this deed
\</strong\>Typically this deed will be used when the company has a new shareholder as a result of an existing shareholder selling their shares\. It can also be easily adapted \(or incorporated in a subscription agreement\) to suit the scenario where a company is issuing new shares to new shareholders\.

\<strong\>How to use the template
\</strong\>Once purchased you can download the template in Word format to then edit accordingly\. The agreement highlights sections in capital letters surrounded by square brackets where relevant information needs to be inserted in place of such square bracketed text\.

As the document is produced as a deed each party needs to sign to the right of their name, while an independent person \(i\.e\. not a relative\) adds their details underneath such signature as a witness\.
- [Declaration of Trust \- Floating Shares and Purchase Option](https://www.jonathanlea.net/product/declaration-of-trust-floating-shares-and-purchase-option/): This product constitutes an easily adaptable pro forma declaration of trust, together with a set of tailored guidance notes which aim to set out how to correctly fill\-out the template and explain all significant provisions so as to allow you to put into effect a valid and legally binding declaration of trust\.

This standard document is drafted for use by two or more individuals who jointly own a property and their respective shares in the property will be determined according to their contributions over time\.

Additionally, this document contains provisions which allow a party to purchase another party’s interest in the property via a purchase option\. The provisions outline the procedure and time frames for proceeding with the purchase option\. Further provisions include how the interest is valued and in turn how the purchase price of the option is calculated\.

Generally, declarations of trust or ‘deeds of trust’ are used in property transactions when two or more individuals decide to buy a property together as tenants in common as opposed to joint tenants \(i\.e\. they don’t own the property equally but will have different shares in the property which won’t pass to the other co\-owner on death\)\. For further information on declarations of trust, please read our articles below:
\<ul\>
 	\<li\>\<a href="https://www\.jonathanlea\.net/blog/how\-declarations\-of\-trust\-work/"\>How declarations of trust work\</a\>\</li\>
 	\<li\>\<a href="https://www\.jonathanlea\.net/blog/declarations\-of\-trust\-for\-uk\-property/"\>Declarations of trust for UK property\</a\>\</li\>
 	\<li\>\<a href="https://www\.jonathanlea\.net/blog/how\-to\-register\-a\-declaration\-of\-trust\-at\-the\-land\-registry/"\>How to register a declaration of trust at the HM Land Registry\</a\>\</li\>
\</ul\>
Further down the page are our guidance notes relating to this template, guidance notes which you will also receive as a separate document when you buy the product\.
- [Document Template Bundle](https://www.jonathanlea.net/product/document-template-bundle/): \<p class="large"\>Here you can quickly and easily gain access to \<strong\>all\</strong\> our high\-quality legal document templates which we have put together in\-house in one complete bundle\.\</p\>
\<p class="large"\>The Document Template Bundle contains every single template currently available to purchase from our shop, but it is ready to purchase in one complete bundle\! All you have to do is pay a fee of £75\.00, download the template onto your computer or other device and begin drafting\.\</p\>
We have tried to keep all of the templates as simple as possible so that your input will only be required where absolutely necessary\. Once you have filled in the template, the parties to it will just need to sign and date it to make the document legally binding\. Our team would be happy to review any agreements / documents produced using our templates for a competitive fee to give you peace of mind that what you have created is suitable and affords the parties all necessary legal protections\.

## Team Members
- [Samara Bebb\-Bassett](https://www.jonathanlea.net/meet-the-team/samara-bebb-bassett/)
- [Elia Neale](https://www.jonathanlea.net/meet-the-team/elia-neale/)
- [Alexandra Pagu](https://www.jonathanlea.net/meet-the-team/alexandra-pagu/)
- [Beth Reed](https://www.jonathanlea.net/meet-the-team/beth-reed/)
- [Rebecca Dowle](https://www.jonathanlea.net/meet-the-team/rebecca-dowle/)

## Business Services
- [Employment Settlement Agreements](https://www.jonathanlea.net/services/employment-law/employment-settlement-agreements/)
- [Corporate](https://www.jonathanlea.net/services/corporate/)
- [Corporate Restructuring and Reorganisation for SMEs](https://www.jonathanlea.net/services/corporate/corporate-restructuring-and-reorganisation/)
- [Insolvency \& Restructuring](https://www.jonathanlea.net/services/commercial-dispute-resolution/insolvency-restructuring/)
- [Series A Readiness Legal Review](https://www.jonathanlea.net/services/corporate/series-a-funding/)

## Individual Services
- [Left Out of a Will? Making a Claim under the Inheritance Act 1975](https://www.jonathanlea.net/individual-services/wills-probate/claim-under-the-inheritance-act-1975/)
- [Civil \& Personal Dispute Resolution](https://www.jonathanlea.net/individual-services/civil-personal-dispute-resolution/)
- [Professional Negligence Claims](https://www.jonathanlea.net/individual-services/civil-personal-dispute-resolution/professional-negligence-claims/)
- [Trusts](https://www.jonathanlea.net/individual-services/wills-probate/trusts/)
- [Enfranchisement \& Lease Extensions](https://www.jonathanlea.net/individual-services/enfranchisement-lease-extensions/)

## Case Studies
- [Securing a Commercial Lease Renewal for The Bay Tree Café in Haywards Heath](https://www.jonathanlea.net/case-study/case-studies-commercial-lease-renewal-cafe-1954-act/)
- [Employment Tribunal Claim Resolved Through Strategic Advice and Settlement Support](https://www.jonathanlea.net/case-study/employment-tribunal-whistleblowing-detriment-settlement-case-study/)
- [Minority Shareholders Use Reverse Solicitation Strategy to Apply Pressure in Share Sale Dispute](https://www.jonathanlea.net/case-study/minority-shareholder-dispute-uk/)
- [Sale of a Commercial Freehold and Share Sale of a Café Business in London](https://www.jonathanlea.net/case-study/case-study-commercial-freehold-sale-cafe-business/)
- [How The Jonathan Lea Network Successfully Advised on the Sale of a Central London Legal Practice to a Regional Firm](https://www.jonathanlea.net/case-study/sale-of-a-legal-practice-in-london/)

## Podcasts
- [Kent Reynolds and George Harrison \- Section 21 and Section 8 Notice Podcast](https://www.jonathanlea.net/podcast/kent-reynolds-and-george-harrison-section-21-and-section-8-notice-podcast/)
- [In the kitchen with \.\.\.\.\.\.\. Adrian Samuel and Kent Reynolds\. Episode 2: Lucy Letby Case\.](https://www.jonathanlea.net/podcast/episode-2-in-the-kitchen-with-adrian-samuel-and-kent-reynolds/)
- [Kent and George's Podcast \| The Post Office Inquiry Update](https://www.jonathanlea.net/podcast/kent-and-georges-podcast-the-post-office-inquiry-update/)
- [Building a Legal Practice: Jonathan Lea on Entrepreneurship, Growth, and Lessons from the Journey](https://www.jonathanlea.net/podcast/building-a-legal-practice-jonathan-lea-on-entrepreneurship-growth-and-lessons-from-the-journey/)
- [Kent Reynolds and Mary Kemp Podcast: A discussion about AI](https://www.jonathanlea.net/podcast/kent-reynolds-and-mary-kemp-podcast-a-discussion-about-ai/)

## Jobs
- [Executive Assistant](https://www.jonathanlea.net/recruitment/executive-assistant/)
- [Marketing \& Business Development Executive](https://www.jonathanlea.net/recruitment/marketing-business-development-executive/)
- [Legal Cashier / Accounts Assistant \(Part\-Time Job Share\)](https://www.jonathanlea.net/recruitment/legal-cashier-accounts-assistant-part-time-job-share/)
- [Looking for the right people](https://www.jonathanlea.net/recruitment/looking-for-the-right-people/)
- [Legal Secretary / Administrator – Haywards Heath, West Sussex](https://www.jonathanlea.net/recruitment/legal-secretary-haywards-heath/): How solicitors can work on a self\-employed basis, as well as the benefits of joining The Jonathan Lea Network as a consultant 

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