Ashfords LLP

Corporate

Partner in the Corporate team and Head of the Technology Sector

Chris is a partner in the corporate team and Head of the Technology & Digital Transformation Sector.

Chris specialises in venture capital and mergers and acquisitions, advising a wide range of UK and international investment funds and growth companies. He has significant experience in European and U.S. cross-border investments and exits.

He is recognised in both the Legal 500 and the Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession.

Relevant experience

• WealthOS: Advising on the acquisition of wealth management technology company WealthOS by JP Morgan Chase

• Form 3: Advising payment technology company Form 3 on its $160m Series C investment round led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from investors including 83North, Molten Ventures, Mastercard, Lloyds, Nationwide and Barclays

• Volution: Advising venture capital investor Volution on a $165m funding round led by Battery Ventures in global risk and reputation intelligence platform Signal AI 

• Currencycloud: Advising investors including Sapphire Ventures, Accomplice, Notion Capital and Anthemis on a $80m Series E investment round in fintech payment platform Currencycloud, subsequently acquired by Visa for £700m

• Fathom: Advising flood risk intelligence provider Fathom on strategic investment rounds and its acquisition by global reinsurance company Swiss Re

• PeopleHR: Advising innovative HR solutions provider People HR on its acquisition by business software company the Access Group

• Mercia Ventures: Advising venture capital firm Mercia Asset Management on its Series A investment in higher education advice technology platform Studentcrowd

• Stolt Ventures: Advising sustainable technologies investor Stolt Ventures on a £10m investment round in aquaculture technology company Ace Aquatec

• Notion Capital: Advising Notion Capital on a $36m Series B Investment in customer engagement platform Dixa 

• HV Capital: Advising venture capital investor Holtzbrinck Ventures on a $20m Series A investment round in global digital freight forwarder Zencargo

• Frog Capital: Advising scale-up investor Frog Capital on its investments in insurance software solutions provider Genasys 

• NewVoiceMedia: Advising investors including Notion Capital, BGF and Eden Ventures on the $350m exit of NewVoiceMedia, a provider of cloud-based contact centre solutions, to NYSE-listed Vonage

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