UK Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Dylan Doran Kennett, Michael Jacobs, Stephen Newby and Mark Ife Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP offers a global venture capital and growth equity practice with a deep bench of specialist practitioners across the world, including in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Singapore, Australia, South Africa, the US, UAE and Saudi Arabia. The UK team consists of 20 dedicated lawyers who cover all aspects of venture capital and growth equity, across multiple sectors. The firm em - phasises a blended practice across early-stage and late-stage transactions, acting for compa - nies, institutional investors and corporate ven -
turing houses alike, and across the entire life cycle from seed to exit, including IPOs. It has extensive sector capabilities and established practices, acting for scale-up companies, par - ticularly in the tech, fintech, cleantech, life sci - ences, media and sport and consumer sectors. This material was researched and written by Dylan Doran Kennett, Michael Jacobs, Stephen Newby, Mark Ife, Veronica Roberts, Casey Dal - ton, Zoe Wilson, Jhanelle Bisasor, Evan Li, Emi - ly Travers, Theo Pickles and Mohamed Sabry Salama.
Authors
Dylan Doran Kennett is a partner at Herbert Smith Freehills, where he co-leads the
Michael Jacobs is a partner and co-head of the venture and growth capital practice at Herbert Smith Freehills, and co-head of the UK equity capital markets team. He has a sector
venture and growth capital practice. He has a wealth of experience in venture and growth equity transactions, and in private equity, domestic and cross-border M&A. Dylan acts on both parts of the investment dialogue, advising company side and investor side (whether institutional or strategic), as well as joint ventures and other collaborative transactions. He predominantly covers the technology, life sciences, media and sport sectors, helping investors deploy capital globally and scale-ups launch new products and “land and expand” into new markets.
focus on tech, fintech and consumer. Michael has experience across the full spectrum of venture and growth capital transactions, for both companies and investors, including taking companies all the way to IPOs and beyond. As a result, he is able to advise companies and investors across the full life cycle, from seed to exit. Michael is ranked by Chambers and Partners.
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