“Endeavour Partnership’s legal
expertise has been crucial to
Visualsoft. They fully understand
tech businesses, but despite being
extremely knowledgeable, don’t
over complicate things”
complicate things, which is important
when dealing with people who don’t
have a legal background.”
“Endeavour are professional and
knowledgeable but also fun and
adaptable, just like Visualsoft.
Dean continued: “What first attracted
us to work with Endeavour is their
forward-thinking approach. They’re
on the same wavelength as us and
understand what we are about and
where we want to be. They can see
the bigger picture and we have built
up a trusting relationship.
“They understand our ethos and fit
the mould of what we want our legal
team to look like perfectly.”
“In fact, we are so happy and
trusting of their services, we highly
recommend them to all of our
clients, which is rare that we feel
comfortable to do this.
“Ours is definitely a relationship
where we learn from each other and
further down the line, we would like
to work with Endeavour to develop
an e-Commerce law platform for
more standardised documents.”
Endeavour Partnership – which has
recently been ranked in Chambers
UK 2016 as the top Teesside law
firm - has provided legal services
and advice to several of Visualsoft’s
departments, including Human
Resources, employee and customer
contracts, financial contracts, online
terms and conditions of sale, building
contracts, intellectual property
contracts and corporate governance
contracts.
The legal experts admire Visualsoft’s
pioneering and unique approach to
all aspects of the business and also
provide services for their innovation
lab spin-outs, such as the recently
launched Hive and Talent Hunter.
Emma Hart, Visualsoft’s HR manager
credited with Talent Hunter - a
ground-breaking recruitment idea
which rewards job hunters and
their friends for filling roles – said:
Martin McKinnell and Nik Tunley
work closely with Visualsoft, and say
they relish the challenges they face
from of being involved with such a
pioneering company.
Martin, said: “Visualsoft is a really
proactive business, which is
refreshing to work with.
“The team is very creative which
keeps us on our toes and they are
always coming to us with inventive
ideas, such as the suggestion of
unlimited holidays for staff, which we
were able to advise them on and help
them implement.”
A partner in the firm’s corporate
team, Nik was also involved in a
landmark project earlier this year,
which saw Endeavour work alongside
Growth Capital Ventures to develop
a new legal framework, which has
been highlighted as having the
potential to revolutionise the way
entrepreneurs and investors take
advantage of alternative finance
markets.
His team of lawyers developed
a suite of standardised legal
documents to facilitate coinvestment and syndication between
the various different types of investor
using its platforms.
Speaking about Endeavour’s
involvement in the ground-breaking
work, Nik said: “The Growth Capital
Ventures project was an interesting
and exciting piece of work for
Endeavour.
“We have an experienced corporate
and commercial team and it was
good to support an innovative
‘Fintech’ business like Growth Capital
Ventures.”
Since its formation in 1999 by four
experienced lawyers, Endeavour
Partnership has established itself as
the only Tees Valley firm to provide
purely commercial legal services to
businesses in the region.
Operating out of Tobias House on
Teesdale Business Park, the company
has quadrupled in size and has been
nominated for three national awards –
the Legal Business “Most Enterprising
Law Firm of the Year” and, for two
years in succession, the “Best Trainer
of the Year, Small Firm” nominated by
the Trainee Solicitors Group.
Working successfully with Visualsoft,
Growth Capital Ventures, Unitel,
Coatsink Software Limited and
Sapere Software Limited, Endeavour
prides itself on being able to provide
practical and commercial advice
on all aspects of the law relating
to information technology and the
internet.
The firm recognises this is a sector
which is ever changing and essential
to businesses of all sizes but relishes
the challenge of being acknowledged
throughout the North East as the
industry leader and number one legal
tech-sperts.
Tobias House, St. Mark’s Court,Teesdale Business Park, Teesside, TS17 6QW
T: 01642 610300 F: 01642 610330 DX: 723015 Stockton 10
www.endeavourpartnership.com