Venture capital and growth

WE ACT FOR CLIENTS ACROSS THE VENTURE CAPITAL LANDSCAPE

Experience

Awards

Insights

Key contacts

Private capital
- Real assets: Real estate
- Real assets: Energy and infrastructure
- Private equity
- Leveraged finance
- Venture capital and growth

Globally, a growing weight of private capital is moving to non-control investments, particularly into tech, energy markets, biotech and other emerging industries. We work with investors, businesses and founders across the life cycle of start-up, business expansion and liquidity, providing strategic counsel.

Our venture capital and growth teams work across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australian markets and regularly advise on transactions involving cross-border investments from or into the US.

We have a deep and established practice acting for entrepreneurial and high growth start-up and scale-up companies particularly in the tech and new energy sectors corporates. We also regularly act for investors, including venture capital firms, private equity houses, family offices and corporate venture arms of major companies on venture capital and non-control private investment.

Recent Experience

Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered in relation to its investment into United Fintech Group Limited

Hoxton Ventures

Hoxton Ventures, a London based, technology venture capital fund on its £5m investment into Malt AI

Bioniq

Bioniq on its Series B funding round

Bharti Group

Bharti Group on its acquisition of OneWeb jointly with the UK government and subsequent investments by SoftBank, Eutelsat and Hanwha raising over $2.5billion and subsequent $3.4billion acquisition by Eutelsat.

Grok Ventures

Grok Ventures on numerous investments including in Zoox’s $650m Series A funding, the A$20bn Sun Cable project (including its subsequent acquisition of the project), online energy lender Brighte Capital on its Series A and B and securitisation and renewable energy businesses and its A$100m Series C capital raising and investments in Zoomo, SoilCQuest, SunDrive, Goterra, Tenacious Ventures Fable Food and in Juvenescence’s $100m Series B round.

Gousto

Gousto on multiple investments rounds raising over $400million, including from SoftBank, and follow-on secondary and debt rounds

Key contacts

Dylan Doran Kennett

Partner, Co-Head of EMEA Venture & Growth Capital , London

Michael Jacobs

Partner, Co-Head of EMEA Venture & Growth Capital , London

Aaron White

Partner, Head of TMT Asia, Brisbane

Victor Chiew

Partner, Singapore

Elizabeth Henderson

Partner, Co-Head of Venture Capital (Australia), Sydney

Gavin Guo

Partner, Kewei, Mainland China

Clayton James

Partner, Sydney

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Venture capital and growth