Drawing upon strong cross-border capabilities when advising on all stages of funding rounds and equity investments, Burges Salmon LLP primarily concentrates on the fintech, cleantech, and healthtech industries. Based out of Edinburgh, Danny Lee co-leads the venture capital offering, overseeing multi-jurisdictional investment transactions, while fellow co-head Alex Lloyd specialises in technology and emerging companies from the Bristol and London offices. Mark Shepherd concentrates on refinancings and exits, and Charles Claisse is knowledgeable on joint ventures.
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Testimonials
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- 'Strength is in the team and the range of skills and the ability to work with different specialist partners and team members as necessary.'
- 'A good team from partners downwards and always willing to discuss and work with you to achieve a commercial solution and not getting bogged down in legal point scoring.'
Key clients
- Foresight
- Engie New Ventures
- Firefly Green Fuels
- The Electric Car Scheme
- Inverleith
- Gemba
- Panoramic Growth Equity
- Circularity Capital
- Nium
- FirstGroup Plc
- BGF (formerly Business Growth Fund)
- Octopus Investments
Work highlights
Acted for Gemba on the follow on investments as part of its $18m Series A Fundraising led by Parkway Venture Capital.
Acted for The Electric Car Scheme on its Series A fundraising led by 13books Capital, with participation from Triple Point Ventures, Seedcamp, Adjuvo, Ascension and Bayern Kapital.
Supporting Paris headquartered Engie New Ventures on their equity investment in Wase Ltd, a Bristol-based waste -to-bio-energy start up.
Practice head
Danny Lee; Alex Lloyd
Other key lawyers
Mark Shepherd; Charles Claisse; Niall Mackle; Julie Book