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

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

Satu Dental

Satu Dental on its Series A fundraising led by Alpha JWC Ventures and SIG Venture Capital. Satu Dental is a dental care and consumer business, operating 17 dental clinics, equipped with laboratories across Indonesia

Breakthrough Energy Ventures

Breakthrough Energy Ventures on its investment in Australian climate technology company Rumini 8.

Reefknot Investments

Reefknot Investments, a venture capital fund formed as a joint venture between Temasek, the Singapore sovereign wealth fund, and Kuehne + Nagel, a global transport and logistics company based in Switzerland, in its Series B Investment in Prowler.io, a Cambridge-based data-efficient AI analytics startup and its Series A+ investment in Previse, a supply chain fintech

Key contacts

Aaron White

Partner, Head of TMT Asia, Brisbane

Michael Jacobs

Partner, London

Victor Chiew

Partner, Singapore

Elizabeth Henderson

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

Peter Dunne

Co-Head of Venture Capital, Sydney

郭武汉

合伙人，科伟史密夫斐尔, Mainland China

Clayton James

Partner, Sydney

Dylan Doran Kennett

Partner, London

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