Venture capital funds and angel investors

• Investment – structuring, drafting, negotiating and advising on all relevant investment documents
• Commercial – the full spectrum of commercial, IP and technology agreements
• Tax – advising how best to structure investment tax efficiently, including the Enterprise and Seed Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS and SEIS)
• Share schemes and benefits – advising on tax-efficient share incentive arrangements for senior management and other staff, including advising on enterprise management incentive (EMI) options to incentivise key employees
• IP – protecting, enforcing and exploiting IP rights (typically the key assets of early stage companies)
• Advising on data protection or privacy issues
• Employment – advising on employment arrangements to ensure that key staff are appropriately locked in.

Atomico

We advised Atomico, the venture capital firm founded by Niklas Zennstrom (a co-founder of Skype and Kazaa) on a number of investments including its lead investments in Chemistdirect.co.uk (which provides health and beauty products online at low prices) and Jolicloud (an internet operating system for netbooks founded by Tariq Krim, the founder of Netvibes).

PROfounders Capital

We advised PROfounders Capital, the European VC fund backed by some of the UK’s most successful tech entrepreneurs, including Brent Hoberman and Michael Birch, in relation to its investments in easyCar (founded by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou) to introduce the ‘Car Club’ to the UK and in CitySocialising, the UK’s leading Online2Offline subscription-based ‘socialising network’ for outgoing urbanites to meet new friends.

Ingenious Ventures

We advised Ingenious Ventures, the venture capital division of Ingenious Media, on its investments in a number of emerging UK companies.