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Mills & Reeve LLP
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100 HILLS ROAD
CAMBRIDGE
CB2 1PH
England

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Work Department

Corporate.

Position

Zickie specialises in Corporate Finance and heads up the firm’s venture capital and equity investments practice. Zickie acts for a range of VC investment funds, including Mercia Technologies PLC and the Mercia Growth Funds, IQ Capital, North West Fund (Biomedical) LP, Low Carbon Innovation Fund, Enterprise Ventures and Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds as well as business angels and angel groups on their portfolio investments, portfolio management issues and exits. She also advises start ups, spin-outs and fast growth VC backed technology businesses on their equity and debt funding rounds, their growth transactions and exits. Her company clients include Secret Escapes, 4Energy, Grapeshot and Sphere Fluidics. Zickie has also developed a particularly strong reputation and track record in the university spin out market, having advised in relation to over 90 spin outs from universities throughout the UK, including from the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, East Anglia and Essex, Hertfordshire, Oxford, Manchester, Salford, Sheffield, Southampton and Warwick, to name a few. She also authored the University Spin Out precedent documents and know how suite for Practical Law Company, a leading provider of know how and precedents for the legal profession in the UK.

Career

Trained Mills & Reeve LLP; qualified 2000; solicitor 2000-03; senior solicitor 2003-06; associate 2006-08; partner 2008.

Languages

French.

Memberships

Law Society.

Education

Forest School, near Snaresbrook; University of Reading (1996 LLB Law and French Law).

Leisure

Going to concerts/festivals, travelling and quality time with my family.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Corporate and commercial > Venture capital

Mills & Reeve LLP is ‘very experienced in VC-related transactions’ within the tech and life sciences sectors, acting on behalf of investees and investors, and in the latter case also often being the law firm of choice for the initial fund structuring mandate. Cambridge-based team head Zickie Lim has vast experience in the field, particularly at an earlier stage, including continuing to handle a considerable volume of work relating to university spin-outs. Also based in Cambridge, Dona Ardeman provides a holistic approach to early stage-focused funds, acting as she does on both their fund creation and subsequent transactional work. Principal associate Edward Sloan leads the firm’s efforts from the London office and is appreciated for his ‘ability to find solutions to tricky problems’ for investors and investees.