Waterfront has advised Exate Technology Limited (“eXate”) on an investment in the company by investors led by Aperture Capital, together with existing investors.
eXate are a talented group of entrepreneurs and engineers with a ground breaking idea designed to contribute towards removing the complexity around protecting data. eXate’s data protection and data privacy solution allows clients to easily and effectively control access to data, enabling regulatory compliance with data privacy regulations and cross-border data transfers.
The Waterfront team advising on this transaction was led by Adam Bartels (Partner) together with Matthew Cunningham (Consultant).
eXate’s Co-founder, Peter Lancos, said: “Waterfront worked efficiently to navigate us through our investment and we were very satisfied with our experience.”
For more information about eXate click here: www.exate.com
The National Security and Investment Act 2021 came into force came into force on 4 January 2022 and introduced the first stand-alone regime for screening acquisitions and investments to protect UK national security.
On 19th November 2025, the European Commission announced proposed changes to the AI Act, following their commitment to a “clear, simple, and innovation-friendly implementation of the AI Act.”