The Shoreditch founder's estate is mostly in Companies House and mostly not in any will
A Shoreditch startup founder's largest asset is almost always shares in the company they started, and those shares behave on death according to the Articles and the shareholders' agreement, not the will. A single will drafted without reading those documents first is usually drafting blind.
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Why a Shoreditch single will starts with the cap table
A Shoreditch or Old Street founder typically holds shares subject to vesting schedules, pre-emption rights, drag-along and tag-along provisions, and often a good-leaver bad-leaver clause. What happens on death is determined by those documents, not by the will, and a specialist single will here starts by reading them.
Digital assets add a second layer. Cryptocurrency wallets, portfolio domains, Stripe balances, cloud-stored IP, and high-value platform accounts all require access instructions the executor will not otherwise have. A specialist drafter in EC2A usually produces an access memorandum alongside the will, stored separately for security.
The Bangladeshi-heritage community in adjacent Whitechapel and Spitalfields often wants a Sharia-aligned structure within English legal validity. Specialists we match here handle both tech founders and Sharia-compliant drafting, and the matching produces very different output in each case.
The Shoreditch will that matches the cap table, not the cash balance
A founder whose company is worth £10 million but whose personal bank account holds £40,000 has an estate dominated by the cap table. The will does not control the shares directly but it controls whatever the shareholders' agreement distributes on death. Getting this wrong at drafting stage creates a dispute between the co-founders and the family at the worst possible moment.
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If your Shoreditch estate is mostly in your company, your wallet, or your Github, a standard single will is drafting to the wrong picture. We will match you with a specialist who reads the Articles, the agreement, and the wallet structure before writing the will.