About us
Legal & business nerds on a mission to shake things up
Think of us as your team of lawyers & serial entrepreneurs
Meet the team
Ian Greig MBA
MBA, BSc (Hons), GDL
Co-founder
Director/Legal Consultant
Ian is an experienced entrepreneur, company director and business advisor.
For 10+ years he has worked predominantly in director roles at start-ups.
Ian has founded or co-founded 8 businesses and advised hundreds of businesses and brands.
Co-founder
Senior Business Consultant & M&A Advisor
David has experience founding 37 companies, acquiring 128 and successfully selling 18 businesses.
He has acquired hundreds more for clients while helping them scale quickly.
David helps founders create multi-million dollar businesses.
MA/LPC, BSc (Hons), GDL
Co-founder
Senior Business & Legal Consultant
Josh is a solicitor and legal and business consultant with 10+ years of experience in corporate, commercial and finance – within private practice and in-house (UK and UAE).
He qualified at Travers Smith, a prestigious London Silver Circle law firm.
Josh has board-level legal and entrepreneurial experience working in the UK and internationally.
Highlights include having worked as legal counsel within the investment team at Schroders' London HQ, consultant at MUFG Bank (Japan's largest bank), a secondary school governor, an analyst/project consultant at Credit Suisse (via D2LT) and a senior legal counsel for a large multinational organisation.
Jane Clemetson FRSA
LLB
Senior Legal Consultant
Jane originally qualified as a barrister before re-qualifying as a solicitor, working in the City of London for Slaughter and May, ultimately working as a legal consultant for over three decades.
Jane specialises in commercial contracts, media and entertainment, IP, data protection, privacy and AI; advising businesses large and small on legal and business affairs matters, including “business as usual contracts” and those relating to the digital economy and IT and on the creation and exploitation of intellectual property of all descriptions and on advertising, marketing, sponsorship, events and social media.
Jane worked in-house for Sony Music UK and for Reach plc (publisher of “The Mirror” and many other titles) and has worked as a consultant for news publishers and producers, including ITN and the publishers of various national news titles, such as “The Telegraph”, and “The Independent” and production companies on commissions from ITV, the BBC, Channel 5, Netflix, Disney+ and AppleTV.
She has also worked with podcast producers, record companies, music publishers, book publishers, artists, composers, computer games designers, cloud service and e-commerce providers.
Winner of the European Woman of Legal Tech Award.
Laura Williamson
FInstLM, Chartered MCIPD, ACILEx
Senior Employment/HR Consultant
Laura is an award-winning experienced and qualified HR director specialising in employment law, talent acquisition and development, organisational development, employment relations and advocacy.
She was previously a director of a medium-sized accountancy practice, and has 15+ years of private and non-profit sector HR experience, including at board level.
Winner of the HRi Awards 2023 (Emerging Talent).
Winner of the SME News Legal Awards 2024 (Best International Employment Law Services & Training Consultancy 2024).
Winner of the SME News Legal Awards 2024 (UK Legal Client Service Excellence Award 2024).
Melissa Hattersley
LLB
Legal Consultant
Melissa is a commercial legal consultant with experience in corporate, commercial, intellectual property, and technology law.
She's a video game law aficionado, equestrian athlete, and proud dog mom to a legally blonde chihuahua.
As a gamer and 3x founder, Melissa blends her love for video games and art with her expertise in law and business. She helps consultants, solopreneurs and SMEs on various aspects of commercial law, contracts and IP, with a particular interest in working with developers, artists, and creative entrepreneurs to protect and commercialise their ideas and intellectual property.
A passionate advocate for inclusivity, Melissa is a Women in Games Ambassador and mentor, dedicated to helping marginalised people break into the gaming industry.
Melissa qualified as an attorney at Dentons (an international law firm) in South Africa, and now works in the UK as a legal consultant and advisor to growing UK and international businesses.
Innovative + alternative
We have been trading since February 2022 and are making steady strides in the marketplace as a legal provider of choice for new and established businesses and consultancies alike.
New is a legal consultancy, not a law firm. Law firms are heavily regulated and must adhere to strict rules, compliance procedures and insurance requirements, which come with high operating costs. This partly explains why they are often rigid and expensive.
The legal services that New and its network of consultants offer, including commercial and corporate legal services, and compliance solutions, fall outside of the ‘reserved activities’ set out in the Legal Services Act 2007 (LSA), and are therefore ‘unreserved activities’ or ‘non-reserved activities’. This means that we are free to practice those areas of English law without being required to be regulated and authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).
We comply with all applicable laws, however we aren’t regulated and restricted by the regulations imposed on law firms. This means we can be innovative in our approach: we shape our solutions, pricing, and business model around you, because we have that flexibility.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Hey, I'm Ian!
It's my mission to make superior-quality legal docs and services accessible and affordable, and free for as many start-ups as possible. We're reimagining how legal services and support are designed and delivered to the business community.
WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT:
Simple, scalable & social legal solutions for modern businesses
Impacting society by supporting risk-takers and innovators
Boosting social mobility & economic empowerment
TESTIMONIALS
What people are saying about New
"Supported me with getting a B2B contract in place with a client overseas"
"I hadn't fully appreciated the complexities of what I needed but they went through it all with me which was amazing."
Laura Allen
Business coach & consultant
lauraallencoach.com
LEGAL
*T&Cs apply. N3WWW LTD (trading as New & Ingenuity), is a limited company registered in England & Wales (no. 13889459), registered office Suite 169, 23 King Street, Cambridge, CB1 1AH. New is a legal consultancy, not a law firm, and is not authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. English law only. Sponsorship, promotions and credits apply to selected products, services and tiers only – T&Cs and eligibility apply. Subject to availability. Services are provided subject to our Terms of Service & privacy policy available here: https://new-legal.com/legal