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With notable expertise in assisting tech and life sciences start and scale ups, VWV handles a broad range of transactional work within their corporate offering, commercial contracts, as well as, general corporate and commercial matters. The team is co-led by Robert Collier and Doug Locke; Collier provides a robust practice advising on M&As, private equity and venture capital investments, as well as matters of corporate governance. Nathan Guest’s focus is split between M&A and venture capital transactions while Sonya May leads on a number of angel investment deals.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

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  • ‘Nathan Guest and Sonya May quickly established a relationship of trust as they ably helped navigate us to a very successful completion. In doing so, they showed excellent market knowledge, uncommon and valuable commercial appreciation in nuancing their legal advice to fit our situation, and market leading core legal skills.’

  • ‘The VWV team are the 'go to' team for venture capital investments in the South West region - they are incredibly knowledgeable and understand extremely well the key considerations for early stage company deals. They are always pragmatic and commercial in their approach, which makes them fantastic to deal with.’

Key clients

  • Ox Tools Global
  • Serbus Limited

Work highlights

Advising Serbus and its shareholders on the sale of the company to a bidco backed by private equity investor, Aliter Capital.