Smart legal frameworks for early-stage ventures and established businesses.

At Luma Legal, we partner with businesses at all stages of growth, from ambitious startups to established companies restructuring for capital raising, expansion or listing. We provide practical, commercial advice that aligns your legal structure with your strategic direction.

Advice That Grows With You

At Luma Legal, we partner with emerging and evolving businesses to provide clear, commercially grounded legal advice, from day one through to investment, expansion, or exit.

Whether you're launching a new venture, restructuring for scale, bringing in investors, or navigating founder dynamics, we help you make sound decisions and lay strong legal foundations that grow with your business.

We’re passionate about supporting entrepreneurs and ambitious teams at every stage, and we know the decisions you make early on can have a lasting impact.

We help early-stage and evolving businesses with:

  • Choosing and implementing the right structure

  • Incorporating companies, trusts, and group entities

  • Shareholder frameworks and founder dynamics

  • Vesting arrangements and equity incentive schemes

  • IP protection and assignment

  • Early capital raises and investor documents

  • Terms and policies for websites and online platforms

Our advice is designed to grow with your business, avoiding unnecessary complexity, while keeping future scalability and investment in mind.

We work with established businesses to restructure for capital efficiency, simplify ownership, and prepare for significant events such as ASX listings, acquisitions or divestments.

We regularly advise on:

  • Group restructures and reorganisations

  • Pre-IPO structuring and compliance

  • Capital table realignment and governance

  • Establishing holding companies or spinouts

  • Restructuring for external investment or exit

  • Legal frameworks to support new business models or markets

Restructuring & Strategic Advisory for Growth

We tailor our advice to your commercial context, collaborating with accountants, tax advisers and other stakeholders to ensure cohesive outcomes.

Bespoke Agreements & Commercial Documents

We prepare practical legal documents tailored to your stage, industry and strategy. Every agreement is built to support your commercial goals, not get in the way of them.

We assist with drafting and negotiating:

  • Shareholders and Partnership Agreements

  • Contractor & Employment Agreements

  • IP Assignment Deeds

  • Convertible Notes & SAFE Agreements

  • Loan Agreements

  • Equity & Debt Term Sheets

  • Employee Share Schemes (ESS)

  • Confidentiality & Non-Disclosure Agreements

  • Website Terms & Privacy Policies

  • Licensing & Commercialisation Agreements

We’re here to give you clarity, reduce risk, and free you up to focus on building your business.

We advise on:

  • Seed and crowed sourced funding

  • Angel, VC and institutional investment

  • Convertible debt and hybrid instruments

  • Crowdsourced funding and equity platforms

  • Capital structuring and shareholder dynamics

  • Negotiating investment terms and shareholder rights

Our goal is to help you raise funds efficiently, with documentation that supports your next move, whether that’s further funding, an IPO or an exit.

Funding & Growth Advisory

Raising capital? We provide strategic legal support throughout the fundraising process, helping you engage with investors, protect your interests, and maintain control.

Your Legal Partner as You Evolve

We don’t just prepare documents. We provide ongoing legal insight, practical structuring solutions, and sound judgment, so you can make the right decisions at the right time.