Tom Macleod is a Partner in the firm’s Venture Capital group, which sits within the broader Corporate team. He has a particular focus on advising founders and growing entrepreneurial businesses, venture capital funds and angel investors, often from the technology sector.
Tom advises on a broad range of corporate matters, including acquisitions and disposals, financing rounds, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and share incentivisation schemes.
Areas of specialism
- Mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
- Disposals
- Fundraising
- Venture capital
- Venture debt
- Seed and angel investments
- Startups/Scaleups
- SEIS/EIS
- Share incentivisation schemes (including EMI and growth shares)
- Joint ventures
- Shareholder arrangements
- Corporate restructurings
Work highlights
- Advising Smart Pension, the technology innovator and leading UK workplace pensions provider, on various rounds of funding, including is $95m Series E led by Aquiline – read more here
- Advising Primer API, the payment automation platform provider, on its $20m series A funding round (led by Accel) and $50m series B funding round (led by ICONIQ Growth)
- Advising F1 Arcade on the launch of a new Formula 1 social entertainment venue including an investment round led by Imbiba – read more here
- Advising Futrli, the fast-growing cloud-based business decision-making platform, on its £4m Series A funding raise from leading venture capital firms e.ventures, Notion Capital and firstminute Capital, and its subsequent sale to Sage – read more here
- Advising the shareholders of Vaix Limited, a leading developer of Artificial Intelligence solutions specifically designed for the iGaming industry, on its acquisition by Sportradar Group – read more here
- Advising Earlybird Ventures, one of Europe’s most successful venture capital firms, on a number of investments including its lead investment in Lexoo, the legal tech startup
- Advising activist shareholder platform Tulipshare on a $10.8m seed investment round led by venture capital firm Eurazeo, alongside Speedinvest and Frst. – read more here
- Advising GMG Ventures on a number of investments including its lead investment in Signal Media, the artificial intelligence-powered decision support platform, which was part of a $16m Series B round
- Advising Karakuri, a robotics start-up with the potential to revolutionise the preparation of ready-to-eat meals, on investment from Ocado, First Minute and others
- Advising Brandwatch, the leading enterprise social intelligence company, on its acquisition of the content marketing and influencer identification platform, BuzzSumo
- Advising Adam Speigal Productions on the acquisition of the rights to the Mousetrap Productions Limited from Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen and others
- Advising ENGIE New Ventures, the corporate venture arm of the global energy provider ENGIE, on its £3 million investment into Vyntelligence, a smart voice and video notes platform which simplifies and digitises data acquisition.
- Advising ZELP (Zero Emissions Livestock Project), a growing London-based ‘agri-tech’ start-up, on various rounds of funding from investors including Collaborative Fund, Danone Manifesto Ventures, Novo Holdings and Starlight Ventures
- Advising the Forward3D Group and its shareholder Forward Dimension Capital, on the acquisition by The Stagwell Media Group, a US-based digital marketing and investment group
- Advising the shareholders of top 50 global language service provider, translate plus, on its sale to Publicis Groupe’s cross-media production platform, Prodigious
- Advising the majority of shareholders of tPoint Solutions Limited, a SaaS provider of a customer engagement platform to various brands, on its sale to Woven Solutions Limited
- Advising the shareholders of Research Exchange Limited, a leading marketplace and aggregator for institutional research, on the acquisition of the company by Liquidnet.
Career highlights
Tom trained at CMS Cameron McKenna LLP before joining the Corporate practice at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in September 2014 as a newly qualified solicitor.
He joined Harbottle & Lewis in February 2017.
News and Views
- Harbottle & Lewis advises Smart on $95m Series E Funding
- SEIS/EIS updates from Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-Budget” 2022
- Harbottle & Lewis advises on sale of Futrli to Sage
- H&L advises Vaix on its acquisition by Sportradar Group
- H&L advises Kindred Concepts on the launch of a new Formula 1 social entertainment venue
- Harbottle & Lewis advises Tulipshare on a $10.8m investment round
- Harbottle & Lewis advises Smart on £165m Series D Funding
