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.

Experience

A luxury hotel chain

Represented a luxury hotel chain in relation to force majeure clauses and early termination clauses with respect to the hotel management agreement, following a water leakage at one of their hotels in Asia.

UBS

Advising in its recently concluded and entirely successful heavily contested multi-party Court claim for the recovery of lender debt from Vijay Mallya (Bankrupt) by enforcement against a fixed charge in UBS's favour held over residential property in London. The amounts recovered exceeded £23 million and included all of UBS's legal costs

AerCap

on multiple matters including in relation toits $3.5 billion insurance claim and other recovery actions in relation to the loss of aircraft and engines in Russia

Key contacts

Aaron White

Partner, 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

Gavin Guo

Partner, Kewei, Shanghai

Clayton James

Partner, Sydney

Dylan Doran Kennett

Partner, London

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