Start-Ups and Growth Investments
Our market-leading corporate team supports innovative companies at each stage of their journey, from initial start-up right through to liquidity. Having been on that journey many times before, we can add real value for both founders and their investors.

With the right ingredients and support, innovative start-ups and spin-outs can rapidly grow into segment-defining businesses with spectacular valuations. Access to capital and the ability to develop quickly are key.

We work with ambitious businesses and with many UK, EU and US-based investors in structuring and realising their participations in high-growth UK investments. Whether advising founders or their investors, our aim is always to help maximise the company’s potential to achieve a successful outcome for all stakeholders.

Our extensive track record of working with ambitious founders and with the risk-taking investors who back them enables us to help companies grow quickly and efficiently, and so to have the best chance to fulfil their potential. And when the time comes for a liquidity event, we have the experience to ensure that all goes smoothly.

We are also an active part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, through a number of pro bono mentoring arrangements and our work with various incubators and accelerators. And we’ve created and launched our own initiative, Start to Scale, to help founders. Start to Scale provides access to essential resources, automated documents, insights from key stakeholders in the business community, and in-person market square events. Find out more here.

Our expertise includes:

Spin-outs and start-ups
SAFE notes and other angel financings
Pre-seed, seed, Series A and beyond (including venture capital financings)
Venture debt financings (including convertible debt)
Warrant instruments
Equity incentives
Employment and immigration support
Technology transfers and intellectual property protection
Collaborations, joint ventures and partnering arrangements
Data protection and other regulatory compliance
All other “go to market” matters

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John Morrison

Partner

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Start-Ups and Growth InvestmentsOur market-leading corporate team supports innovative companies at each stage of their journey, from initial start-up right through to liquidity. Having been on that journey many times before, we can add real value for both founders and their investors.

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Alasdair Anderson

Melanie Belford

Andrew Blain

George Frier

Joanne Griffin

Cameron Kane

Kirstin Mackay

Cath Macrae

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Georgia Shirreffs

Euan Small

Donald Smith

Stephen Trombala

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Start-Ups and Growth Investments
Our market-leading corporate team supports innovative companies at each stage of their journey, from initial start-up right through to liquidity. Having been on that journey many times before, we can add real value for both founders and their investors.