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No 1 Bow Churchyard
LONDON
EC4 9DQ
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Steve Barnett
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Steve is a partner in the corporate team at Shoosmiths specialising in advising companies and investors on venture and growth capital investments, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions, mainly in the technology sector.
Prior to joining Shoosmiths in March 2017 Steve was a member of the Technology Companies Group in the London office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where he regularly completed 20 – 30 investment and other transactions per annum.
Examples include:
- Acting for a money transfer service provider on its series A and series B investment rounds which raised around $140m in aggregate.
- Acting for a machine learning company on its significant series A investment round.
- Acting for a company in the online advertising sector on its series seed and series A investment rounds.
- Acting for a US-headquartered fintech impact investor on various investment rounds.
- Acting for a UK-focussed institutional seed investor on various investment rounds.
- Acting on numerous angel investment rounds.
- Acting for a cloud services provider on its sale to private equity.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
(Leading individuals)Led from Birmingham by the ‘excellent’ Alastair Peet but operating very much as a unified national practice with other key resources in Reading and London, Shoosmiths LLP provides ‘sensible, actionable and practical advice’ to an increasingly balanced mix of investors and investees. Peet remains a popular choice among prominent fund clients, including Octopus Ventures, which benefit from his ‘very collaborative and consensual approach’ to transactional work as well as his intimate knowledge of the underlying documentation, having himself played a key role drafting and updating the model documents for the BVCA. Along with the ‘knowledgeable and commercial’ Alastair Hammerton, who heads the Midlands corporate team, Peet has also been at the forefront of utilising document automation, AI review, and data analytics to deliver efficiencies and insights for clients. In London, the ‘very knowledgeable’ Steve Barnett is ‘well connected in the venture capital market in Europe’, providing ‘very practical’ advice to his core company side roster, as well as a growing number of institutional investors on early stage funding. Other key members of the national team include Thames Valley-based corporate partner Sanjeev Sharma, whose work encompasses a significant amount of venture capital mandates; Reading-based tax partner Tom Wilde, who is a key resource on the crucial tax aspects associated with the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trusts (VCT); and the ‘excellent’ Helen Burnell, who leads the firm’s spHERe initiative to support female founders and venture capitalists. All named practitioners are based in Birmingham, unless otherwise noted.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals London > Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Venture capital London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
- Employment > Health and safety
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Costs lawyers
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Transport > Rail
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Real estate > Planning
- Transport > Shipping
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Property finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax