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Private equity & venture capital
Our corporate team has expertise in advising on a variety of private equity and venture capital transactions (including acting for investors, founders, management teams and the private equity & venture capital houses themselves).
We understand the specific aspects of both private equity and venture capital–backed deals and how they fundamentally differ from traditional M&A transactions. Acting for a wide range of clients enables us to appreciate and understand each party’s interests in the deal, which ultimately helps all parties achieve their commercial objectives.
We offer a full transactional service, which is tailored depending on your requirements. Our service includes structuring and agreeing term sheets in collaboration with our tax adviser, legal due diligence, warranty protection, disclosure and the drafting of the key documentation. We will harness our specific sector and practice area expertise to advise you on the usual challenges presented in such markets.
We have a large team, with the bench strength to bring in specialist lawyers at all levels for our clients. As part of a full service law firm, we regularly work alongside colleagues from our Real Estate, Banking & Finance and Employment teams, to efficiently and effectively handle all aspects of a private equity transaction.
We regularly assist our clients in relation to:
- Early stage investment and funding, including business angel and institutional investor funding
- Secondary financings and buy-outs
- Venture capital investments
- Management buy-outs
- Management buy-ins
- Structuring debt and equity investment
- Exits.
Personal attention, thoroughness and attention to detail are strengths. The team’s speed at grasping and understanding complex scenarios is unbelievable. – Chambers UK 2026
Our approach
Our award winning team of experienced corporate and M&A lawyers, based in Kent and acting for clients nationally, provides highly commercial advice to help ambitious, mid-market businesses develop and grow. Our clients appreciate our outstanding service, speed of response, availability of lawyers and clear advice. We work with a wide range of clients, from directors of large companies, AIM or listed companies, through to family and owner managed businesses and entrepreneurs. We have particular expertise in the corporate mid-market space across London, the South East and nationally.
We place an emphasis on understanding your commercial strategy to help us form part of your team of professional advisers. Our legal advice is not provided in isolation, and our focus is always on achieving your overall commercial objectives.
Our size and range of experience and expertise means we have the bench strength to bring in specialist lawyers at all levels to assist on relevant matters. We draw on support from the firm’s very strong Real Estate, Employment and Private Wealth teams to provide clients with a comprehensive service. In addition, we can advise on competition, pensions, corporate tax and commercial/IP/IT/data matters.
We regularly advise on highly complex and cross border transactions, for both domestic and international clients. We consistently receive glowing feedback from both our clients and industry peers.
Whether you instruct us to help you sell your business, acquire a company, restructure your share capital, raise finance or advise on the most appropriate vehicle structure for your business, our corporate and M&A lawyers will drive every transaction with energy, determination, intelligence and resourcefulness to ensure you achieve the best outcome.
The team are highly skilled lawyers, operating effectively and efficiently. They are able to communicate complex scenarios and technical points to their clients in an understandable manner and ensure the client has a full understanding of the transaction. They are exceptionally responsive and work collaboratively with the clients other advisors to achieve shared objectives.
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