Starting Your Company: Legal Set-up and Intellectual Property

A plain-English guide for founders and small-business owners to the legal side of starting up: choosing a business form, registering the company and its name, founding documents, licences, bank account, records and the first employee. It also explains how to own and protect a brand, content, inventions and know-how at home and abroad, how to keep the set-up halal, and when to pay for a lawyer. It teaches principles that apply in most countries, not the law of any one country.