Ranked in 2 Practice Areas
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Band 1

Corporate/M&A: £5 million and above

West Midlands

2 Years Ranked

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Alastair heads our national venture capital practice group and is nationally recognized for his venture capital expertise.

Alastair’s focus is on venture and growth capital, advising both institutions and companies/founders on start-up through funding rounds, M&A, and ultimately exit. He is passionate about helping clients with both day-to-day and strategic issues through their life-cycle.

Key clients include Octopus Ventures, Triple Point, Gresham House, DIF Capital, MML Capital Partners, BGF, and numerous start-up and scale-up companies, typically technology enabled. Alastair and his team have market leading expertise in advising on investments involving Venture Capital Trust (VCT) and Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) tax complexities.

Recent experience includes advising:

• Octopus Ventures on over 60 investments in the past two years, including its series C investment in cybersecurity business Digital Shadows, its series B investment in short term retail space provider Appear Here, and investments into Secret Escapes, Token, Chronext, Depop and others. Alastair also advises Octopus Ventures on exits including of Swiftkey to Microsoft, Evi to Amazon, Tails.com to Nestle, and the IPOs of Zoopla and Eve Sleep;

• Oxford Capital Partners on investments including into savings platform Moneybox and insurance disrupter Wrisk.

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Corporate/M&A: £5 million and above - West Midlands
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Band 1

Alastair Peet is a recognised specialist in the venture capital market, and he regularly advises individual and institutional clients on a range of funding and growth capital matters.


Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment - UK-wide
2
Band 2

Alastair Peet acts for investment funds and growth companies on venture capital transactions in the technology space. He heads the firm's national venture capital practice group.

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