Headed by the Birmingham-based Alastair Peet, Shoosmiths LLP’s venture and development capital team advises on the entire life cycle of company’s business, overseeing incorporation, through to seed and later series, alongside exit strategies. The firm is especially active in the tech space, assisting clients ranging from angels and family offices to VC houses, with Peet predominantly focusing on venture and growth capital matters. From Thames Valley, Tom Wilde and Sanjeev Sharma specialise in implementing tax efficient investments and routinely support management teams and listed companies, whilst London-based Steve Barnett is an M&A expert. Back in Birmingham, Helen Burnell is knowledgeable on high-value investment transactions, while Alistair Hammerton concentrates on the seed fundraising side.
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‘We work extremely closely with the team and they now feel like an extension of our own, always available and enthusiastically focused on supporting us.’
‘Sanjeev Sharma and Adam Leszczynski are extremely pragmatic and commercial, they have worked hard to understand what is acceptable to us as investors and deliver excellent work to tight deadlines.’
Key clients
- Octopus Ventures
- Triple Point
- Mercia Asset Management
- Blackfinch Ventures
- Hambro Perks
- Foresight Group
- Clean Growth Fund
- Pi Labs
- Gresham House British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund
- Business Growth Fund
Work highlights
- Advising Speechmatics on its $62m Series B fundraising led by US investor Susquehanna Growth Equity.
- Advising a consortium of four major institutional investors on their exit from Vauban to American tech giant Carta Inc.
- Advising Triple Point’s on the sale of its holding in Credit Kudos to Apple in a deal worth $150m.
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Practice head
Alastair Peet; Steve Barnett; Sanjeev Sharma; Tom Wilde
Other key lawyers
Helen Burnell; Alistair Hammerton; Adam Leszczynski; Charlotte Cannell; Gregg Harris; Kat Hornsby