Venture Capital and Private Equity

Our clients include management teams, private equity and venture capital houses, entrepreneurs seeking funding, private investors, independent fund managers and debt providers. Working in tandem with our Private Client team, we also advise family offices, high net worth individuals and business entrepreneurs on investment opportunities.

Our proactive and commercially-focused Corporate team can advise on:

• start-up and early-stage investments
• structuring and promoting investments
• growth and development capital
• management buyouts (MBOs), management buy-ins (MBIs), institutional buyouts (IBOs), buy-in management buyouts (BIMBOs) and leveraged buyouts (LBOs)
• secondary buyouts
• public-to-private transactions, and
• exit strategies.

Our Corporate team is supported by our specialists in finance and corporate tax, who advise on all aspects of debt financing and tax-related matters relevant to private equity transactions. We also work closely with other specialist teams within the firm, including Employment, Pensions and Employee Benefits, Commercial, Intellectual Property and Real Estate to deliver a comprehensive and seamless service.

From fund formation to investment and exit, our Venture Capital and Private Equity team is well-placed to support clients at every stage of the investment lifecycle.

Recent experience

• Advising Renewabl, a renewable energy matching platform, on its multi-million-pound seed
• Advised Nomios, a European cybersecurity services provider, on its PE-backed acquisition of Dionach, a UK cyber security consultancy.
• Advising the private equity firm, Norland Equity Partners, on a number of business acquisitions. Acted for Schneider & Cie. AG Internationale Transporte (Buyer), a private equity backed international road, air, sea and rail freight transport company, in connection with its acquisition of 80% of the issued share capital of Global Freight Connections Limited (Target), a leading independent freight forwarder.
• Acted for TriSpan in connection with its secondary buyout of a significant majority stake in the Vietnamese restaurant group, Pho.