across our international offices in Brussels, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Paris, London, Munich, Manchester, Silicon Valley and Shanghai.

Our Private Equity and Venture Capital team is well known and trusted within the Private Equity community for providing commercial, pragmatic and innovative legal advice to:

• entrepreneurs and high growth companies in the technology, media and life sciences sectors on all stages of venture capital equity fundraisings, bridge funding rounds and exits/IPO;

• venture capital funds, family offices, high net worth angels and corporate venture investors on equity investments in some of the UK's most dynamic companies in the technology, media and life sciences sectors;

• management teams on mid-market MBO and MBI buyout transactions; and

• financial institutions on leveraged private equity buyouts and refinancings.