International law firm Addleshaw Goddard (AG) has announced the opening of applications for its AG Elevate accelerator programme for scale-up businesses.

The ten-month programme provides growth-stage businesses with the opportunity to secure access to world-class legal advice, regular mentorship meetings and admission to AG's global roster of seminars and networking events, many of which are attended by leading business executives, financiers and industry experts.

This year's AG Elevate programme will seek to put a particular focus on businesses that work in the fintech and digital assets space, reflecting the firm's key expertise in this area. In recent years, AG has significantly enhanced its digital assets, payments and fintech team, attracting industry heavyweights such as Grace Wyatt, an experienced financial services regulatory lawyer from Hogan Lovells. 

Since its inception in 2017, AG Elevate has supported the growth of over 60 businesses, tackling a wide range of legal and operational hurdles. Its alumni include an eclectic mix of tech start-ups spanning fintech, online consumer platforms, and innovators in sustainability, clean-tech and prop-tech. Notable graduates include Tumelo, Amiqus, Finance Unlocked, Intelligent Growth Solutions, and Fuuse. Success stories from the programme include SymPhysis Medical, a medtech firm specialising in palliative care solutions, which secured further funding post-participation, and EpiCapture, a prostate cancer diagnostics company, which was successfully acquired.

To qualify for AG Elevate, companies must be based within the technology sector, have plans to achieve high-growth status and have been the recipient of either seed or later funding.

The full support package offered by the AG Elevate accelerator programme is as follows:

• An assigned legal mentor who will meet with the business every month.
• 25 hours of free legal advice on specialist areas
• Access to AG's legal seminars and networking events
• Access to AG's legal updates and other publications
• Access to regular insight sessions hosted in collaboration with business mentors in the AG network
• All other legal advice offered by AG will be provided at a 30% discount

The firm will accept applications for AG Elevate from companies that are primarily based in either the UK, Ireland, France, Spain or Germany.

The deadline for applications to AG Elevate is end of July. Apply here. 

Addleshaw Goddard is a full-service international law firm that works with many of the world's leading businesses. AG advises on more than 50 areas of business law across over 100 jurisdictions and is considered one of Europe's leading legal advisors for the technology sector.

Elvan Hussein, Partner at Addleshaw Goddard, said:

About Addleshaw Goddard:

We are a London headquartered, international, full-service law firm that consistently delivers high-quality outcomes for our clients globally. Our 1,500+ lawyers are based across 20 offices in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
We have been advising clients for 250 years and today support over 5,000 of the world's most respected organisations. We help them in over 50 areas of business law, across more than 100 countries. And while the opportunities and challenges they bring us vary, we solve each in a uniquely Addleshaw Goddard way. 

Our clients enjoy working with us, we deliver a high-quality experience across everything we do, and we are known for award-winning innovation - all of which we harness to bring impact to clients.