Practice Areas

Financing Transactions

We represent our clients in angel, seed round and other venture capital and strategic financing transactions. We have worked on thousands of transactions across the US, the UK and other geographies since the firm started in 2000. Technical precision, practicality and efficiency are part of our core values.

We have extensive experience working on secondary sales and exits, including private tender offers. We frequently advise investors on ongoing portfolio company matters, exits, due diligence and other matters. We also assist our clients with venture debt and other investments from time to time.

Representative clients in this area include Heartcore, Lifeline, London Venture Partners, Initial Capital, Ridge Ventures and Broadway Angels.

Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures

We have extensive US and international experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and frequently support in-house legal teams in this practice area. We also advise investors on exits and can partner closely with other law firms, local counsel and financial advisors.

Representative clients in this area have included Agilent, eBay, Gap Inc., Intel, Good Game (sold to King), Nomadic (sold to Guild Education), Nestpick (sold to Blueground), RSA, Trinity (sold to WNS) and Xcert.

Start-up & General Corporate Matters

We have represented many start-ups and other clients on initial formation matters, financings, flip transactions and exits.

We have extensive experience with overall legal structuring matters and conversions, intercompany agreements, stock option / stock issuance plans and overall IP assignments and general employment related matters. We have created and maintain US subsidiary companies for various clients and also frequently advise on corporate governance matters.

Representative clients in this area include LGNai, Soba Studios, Lokalise, Runy, Inc.

Commercial Matters

We advise and work with technology driven clients in a variety of industries. We negotiate and draft agreements and transactions pertaining to the licensing, use, assignment and sharing of strategic technology, intellectual property, data and other business assets.

We draft and review Terms of Service & Privacy Policies, and advise on U.S. data privacy requirements and policies. We review and localize agreements for the US market.

We advise and support on a variety of personnel matters, including terminations and severance agreements, employee and contractor agreements, and confidentiality, IP, and other related agreements.

We support investors in due diligence in these areas from time to time. We work closely with the business and legal teams. We are pragmatic, efficient and enjoy partnering with our clients to achieve their ultimate commercial objectives in a timely fashion. We also provide leave coverage.

Representative company-side clients in this area include Stellar Labs, Petvisor, Super Evil Mega Corp, Sequoia Insights (Perspiculex), Champion Elevator, Fastman, Neon (sold to Databricks), Renascent, LGN, Lokalise and NNIT.

Fund Investments

We work with venture capital funds, family offices and other investors on investments in investment funds and special purpose vehicles (SPVs). This includes reviewing limited partnership agreements and other related investment documents.

Representative clients in this area include some of those listed on our clients page.

For further information please contact us.