What's next
for your business?
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What's next for your business?
01
You're getting ready to raise
A funding round moves quickly once it starts. The cap table, deal structure and key terms all affect what you can negotiate — and what you walk away with.
We help you prepare what needs preparing, negotiate the terms that matter and get the round across the line.
Critical decision points
Arco works with
– You’re about to negotiate a term sheet
– You’re deciding how the investment should be structured
– New investors will change the cap table or control
– You need to understand which terms really matter before signing
– The round involves investors, entities or structures across more than one jurisdiction
Shareholder agreements
Term sheets
Investment agreements
SAFE / WISE
Convertibles
Cap tables
Articles of association
Governance
02
You want great people to grow with you
An incentive programme can help you attract and retain the people who will build the next stage of the company. The challenge is making it work not only today, but as the company grows — particularly when teams, employees and tax regimes span several countries.
We help you design the programme strategically and build it to work across the jurisdictions you need.
Critical decision points
– You want to give key people a meaningful stake in the upside
– You’re choosing between different incentive structures
– The team sits across several countries
– You’re expanding an existing programme into a new jurisdiction
– A funding round, exit or key hire changes what the programme needs to achieve
– You are making choices that will be expensive or difficult to reverse later
Arco works with
KPO
Warrants
Incentive programmes
Vesting
Good leaver / bad leaver
Strike price
Global incentive structures
03
A deal can change the next chapter
When the commercial opportunity is strong, the legal work should help get the deal signed — not turn risk avoidance into the goal.
We focus on the issues that actually affect the deal, negotiate from the company’s commercial position and help get to an agreement both sides can sign.
Critical decision points
– A customer or partner could materially change the business
– The other side sends its own agreement and the terms are heavily one-sided
– Liability, IP, exclusivity or termination terms could affect the commercial value
– Negotiations are getting stuck in legal detail
– The deal needs to close quickly
– The agreement will become the basis for future customer or partner deals
Arco works with
Customer agreements
Supplier agreements
Terms & Conditions
SaaS agreements
SLA
Partnership agreements
Reseller agreements
Agency agreements
04
Your next move changes the rules
– You’re entering a new country or market
– A new product introduces regulatory requirements you have not dealt with before
– You’re introducing AI or a new use of data into the product
– An enterprise customer raises requirements that could affect how you operate
– Different jurisdictions create conflicting or unfamiliar requirements
– Legal uncertainty is starting to delay a launch or commercial decision
Critical decision points
A new product, technology or market can take you into territory where regulation is still evolving — or where the rules change from one jurisdiction to the next.
We help you work out what genuinely needs to be solved before you move, where there is room to manoeuvre and how to keep the legal work connected to the launch or expansion itself.
Arco works with
GDPR
DPA
DPIA
Privacy
Data mapping
AI regulation
Compliance
Intellectual property
Entrepreneurs at heart.
Lawyers by training.
Founded by Victoria Kopylov and Lise Alm, Arco brings together a team of lawyers with experience from both inside companies and alongside them — in commercial C-level roles, top law firms, and startups moving from pre-seed to global scale. Our experience spans multiple industries, across both hardware and software.
We know when legal needs to lead, when it needs to support, and when it simply needs to get out of the way.