We can help you capitalize on high growth potential.
Whether you are a venture capital investor, corporate investor (including dedicated corporate VC), family office or a sovereign wealth investor, our global team offers the full range of legal services and strategic advice. If you are an entrepreneur, we can also support you as you strive to turn your business into one of tomorrow’s leading companies.
Having worked on some of the most exciting venture capital deals around the world, we know what it takes to help you achieve your ambitions on a global scale. It’s about partnering for the long-term and building strong relationships that will last far beyond your first funding round, enabling us to be your trusted advisor throughout your entire entrepreneurial journey.
From our network of offices in key venture markets around the globe, we are embedded in the ecosystem and can support you with local knowledge on a global scale. This allows you to access the best legal minds and commercial advice, from equity and debt financing, to intellectual property protection, share incentives, mergers and acquisitions, IPO and beyond.
In Asia we are an active member of the venture capital and start-up communities and advise clients on venture capital transactions around the Asia Pacific region. We are members of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association and also support Hong Kong CyberPort and Hong Kong Science and Technology Park providing training and workshops to emerging companies on their incubation and acceleration programmes. Our clients include VC investors, founders and emerging companies. We are able to advise clients on the entire VC life cycle from investment to growth phase to exit.
Our experience in Asia includes advising:
- 3 out of 8 virtual banks in Hong Kong on the roll out of their virtual banking operations
- a Hong Kong-based multifamily office investor on the pre-IPO secondary purchase of shares in a Chinese e-commerce unicorn
- a US-based airline’s corporate venture capital arm on a minority investment in a Singapore based travel technology company
- a Middle Eastern investor participating in the series F funding round of an Indonesian digital mobility and technology decacorn
- a VC fund on its series investment into a Vietnam e-commerce platform
- a Hong Kong biotech company specializing in diagnostic solutions on its pre-IPO investment activities
- on the IPO of Chinese biotech company
"Eversheds Sutherland as our trusted legal advisors supported Oviva throughout the negotiations and the closing of the financing round. We have…built a great and trustful relationship."
"Eversheds Sutherland had an excellent grasp of the technology underlying the deal; were incredibly committed; extremely pragmatic and ensured a “win-win” for both parties which was second to none."