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Band 3

Corporate/M&A: £5 million and above

West Midlands

2 Years Ranked

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Provided by Alistair Hammerton

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Alistair works in the corporate department advising on all aspects of corporate law, with particular specialty around mergers and acquisitions, growth and venture capital, private equity and joint venture arrangements.

Alistair is one of the country’s leading and most active venture capital lawyers - advising on early stage seed investments to series A and later rounds and through to exists.

Alistair works with a variety of clients including for prominent investors such as Octopus Ventures and Oxford Capital on a serial basis, private companies (from start-ups to large corporates), listed plcs, founders and management teams.

Recent experience includes advising:

•Octopus Ventures on circa 20 venture capital investments in the last 12 months, including on its series C investment into augmented reality component developer Wave Optics Limited (total round size $26m) and its series B investment in Irish based content management Amplience Limited (total round size $37m).

•Octopus Development Finance on multiple growth capital investments.

Career

Having read law at the University of Sheffield, Alistair completed his LPC at Nottingham Law School with distinction. Alistair trained at Irwin Mitchell and joined Shoosmiths on qualification in September 2010.

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Corporate/M&A: £5 million and above - West Midlands
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Band 3

Alistair Hammerton is a partner in Shoosmiths' Birmingham office who has a burgeoning practice and heads the Midlands corporate team. He has a particular focus on venture capital transactions.

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