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Emerging Markets and Venture Capital

We advise founders, early stage companies, angel investors, and institutional investors on every stage of the investment life cycle.

Our venture capital team has extensive experience structuring funding rounds, advising on term sheets, conducting legal due diligence, negotiating investment agreements, and supporting clients through post completion matters.

As experienced VC advisers, we help both companies and investors navigate the fast moving investment landscape with clarity and confidence, including transactions involving emerging markets.

We work closely with startups and scale ups to ensure they are “investment ready”. This includes strengthening corporate governance, refining share capital structures, and identifying issues that may affect investor confidence. For investors, we carry out detailed due diligence and provide clear guidance on rights, protections, risk allocation, and long term exit strategies across domestic and emerging markets.

Our venture capital work spans seed rounds, growth capital, bridge financings, SAFE and ASA instruments, convertible loans, and complex multi investor transactions involving VC funds, strategic investors, syndicates, and investors active in emerging markets. We ensure that documentation reflects market standards while still aligning with the commercial objectives of the parties involved.

Our goal is to support clients in achieving fair, commercially sensible outcomes that protect long term interests and enable future growth. Whether acting for a founder raising their first round or an investor participating in a multimillion pound VC transaction, including those expanding into emerging markets, we deliver strategic and responsive advice that matches the pace and demands of the venture capital ecosystem.

Why choose Waterfront Law’s emerging markets and venture capital team?

  • Client-centric approach: We tailor our advice to your business’ unique needs and priorities.
  • Sector expertise: Our lawyers bring deep industry knowledge, particularly in technology, e-commerce, and regulated sectors.
  • Proven track record: We have successfully represented clients in negotiations with major corporations, public sector bodies, and across international jurisdictions.
  • Comprehensive support: From contract drafting to dispute resolution, data protection to corporate transactions, we offer end-to-end legal solutions.

For a confidential, no-obligation conversation about your legal needs, please contact our team, led by Andrew Gordon, via the form below.

Our emerging markets and venture capital team:

Recent Work

  • Advising streaming company Lenses.io on its recent acquisition by Celonis.
  • Advising long-standing clients Cubica Technology and Q6 Holdings on their recent acquisition by Chemring Group.
  • Assisting cyber security training platform Hack the Box on its Series A investment round.
  • Giving advice to Hotwire Public Relations Limited (part of the Enero Group) on its acquisition of McDonald Butler Associates.
  • Advising the shareholders of Anana Limited on its sale to Horizon Capital-backed Sabio Limited.

Our clients have provided positive feedback for each of our venture capital lawyers:

  • We hugely appreciate all the work from Angus, Matthew and Charlotte, going above and beyond all expectations. Lenses.io
  • Waterfront were a great asset to us in managing the acquisition. They were able to offer all the necessary expertise to get this deal done in the tight timeframe, and they proved invaluable in assessing all the possible implications as the deal developed. Angus and Charlotte made teaming up with FLYR Labs as straightforward as it could possibly be. Faredirect
  • A massive thanks to the team at Waterfront whose huge efforts were absolutely instrumental in helping us get this deal done. Cubica
  • Having Waterfront alongside us, doing what was the most important deal of the founders’ lives, was so reassuring. Their superb attention to detail, hard work and ability to explain and anticipate potential issues, ensured that we achieved the outcome we were targeting. We would highly recommend them, particularly to any fast-growing tech or media business. React News 
  • Waterfront Solicitors provided outstanding legal services to Hotwire and the Enero Group in our recent acquisition of McDonald Butler. Waterfront’s team was first class across multiple specialities, including M&A and employment, and played an instrumental role in us meeting a tough timeline and achieving an excellent outcome. The team was very accommodating, despite our conflicting time zones, and willingly put in the extra effort to liaise with a multitude of stakeholders, both internally and externally, during the transaction. Once again, the Waterfront team have proved their worth. Hotwire PR

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