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Venture capital

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Fieldfisher

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Fieldfisher predominantly handles complex venture capital financings, spin-out seed stage investments, and funding rounds, often within the financial services and tech industries. Based out of London, Thomas Colmer is a specialist in series fundraisings and growth equity raise issues, with Janita Good bringing expertise on joint ventures and divestments. Tom Ward co-leads the team from the Manchester office, which also features M&A transaction expert Andrew Oliver.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The team has deep expertise in the space- and both know and are known by the players.’

  • ‘Thomas Colmer brings a great deal of relevant expertise due to his specific experience.’

  • ‘Tom Ward and Andrew Oliver both know our firm exceptionally well and we value their advice.’

  • ‘Fieldfisher's team has excellent depth of knowledge about the sector, the nature of transactions in the market, and about our business specifically. They especially take the time to understand all of the nuance around the transactions that we're considering and the knock-on effects.’

  • ‘Tom Ward is the main partner that we work with. We particularly appreciate the time he takes to understand our business in detail and the pragmatic way in which he helps us to find solutions to challenges when negotiating term sheets and legal documentation. 

  • 'Andrew Oliver, who is also excellent and supports us getting into the detail on all of the transactions and coordinates efforts with our international colleagues on our mostly cross-border transactions.’

Key clients

  • Acet Circular Solutions
  • Aggero Ltd
  • Bodyswaps
  • Bower Collective
  • Byway Travel
  • CG Hero Ltd
  • Clearglass Limited
  • Creator Fund
  • Diode
  • Dronamics Global
  • Ember Core
  • Founders Factory

Work highlights

Advised venture capital fund Fuel Ventures on various matters in 2024 including their £2m investment into Yaviro, a business providing embedded business banking solutions for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central users.
Advised digital savings and mortgage platform Tembo Money on its successful £14m Series B funding round led by US venture capital fund Goodwater Capital.
Advised university spin out SEIS/EIS venture capital fund Creator Fund on various investments in 2024, including on the seed financing of Mock AI Limited; as lead investor on the £1.75m seed equity financing of Arondite, a university spin-out from Oxford University.

Practice head

Thomas Colmer; Tom Ward

Other key lawyers

Janita Good; Andrew Oliver; Joshua Cronin