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England - London • TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
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Fintech: corporate and commercial

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Goodwin

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‘Highly knowledgeable about all things fintech’, Goodwin advises clients across the financial services and technology spectrum, including startups, scale-ups, investors, and growth companies through every stage of the corporate life cycle. The practice’s expertise spans venture capital, private equity, financial regulation, commercial contracting, and data protection, with a particular focus on VC financings and M&A transactions. Notable recent matters include advising a financial software company on its sale to a major AI compliance and security firm, and the sale of a cutting-edge identity verification tech firm to a leading global payments and data security company. Arvin Abraham co-leads the firm’s fintech and digital currency & blockchain practices, and is noted for his focus on transactions involving cryptoassets and payments. As co-chair of the global tech M&A group, Andrew Davis advises on growth capital, cross-border acquisitions, and governance for technology-driven companies. Gretchen Scott advises across fintech, AI, and SaaS on commercialisation, IP, regulatory compliance, and data protection.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘A complete team that can handle any ask from a VC perspective, from corporate M&A, to fundraising advice, to litigation support ’

  • ‘Arvin Abraham is my go-to person - very responsive, smart, highly knowledgeable about all things fintech and healthcare.’

  • 'A very committed team that made sure that everything was covered and reviewed in excellent detail based on decades of experience dealing with M&A activities, UK and US law and applying commercial reasoning to difficult negotiation points. It has to be noted that this was a small deal team put together by the partner, and every team member was impeccable.'

  • 'Tremendous expertise in the fintech sector and also have huge experience of dealing with US commercial legal issues. They are responsive, quick to make themselves available when needed and have consistently given us advice we have been able to rely on.'

  • 'Andrew Davis' expertise is phenomenal. He combines deep experience of the sector with charm and humour. Andrew is incredibly responsive to urgent requests for help and will make himself available even at the most unsocial hours - important to our CEO and COO, who handle US business late into every evening. Andrew is able to give immediate advice on most of the commercial issues that arise, and can plug us into relevant experts in Goodwin's US operation when that becomes necessary.'

Key clients

  • Freetrade
  • Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
  • Hg Capital
  • Capitolis
  • Fundment
  • Helio Fintech
  • Vertice
  • Onfido
  • Moneyfarm
  • Matter Labs
  • Goodstack
  • Mosaic Smart Data

Work highlights

Advised Ravelin on its acquisition by Worldpay.
Advised Fundment on its £45 million Series C financing round, including FCA regulatory approvals necessary for the transaction to be approved.
Advised Freetrade, a global online trading platform, on its acquisition by IG Group for £160 million.

Practice head

Arvin Abraham; Andrew Davis; Gretchen Scott