Private equity and venture capital

For businesses looking to either exit or grow, private equity or venture capital investment has become an increasingly attractive option.

Napthens supports clients on a wide variety of transactions, utilising links to investors and equity houses to deliver growth opportunities and introductions to those seeking to invest, whilst being well versed in the transaction documentation to ensure risks are clearly understood, appropriate protection is sought, and deals are concluded in time.

How Napthens can help

With clear commercial advice to help secure the right investment for clients, our team provides advice on all types of transactions involving third party investment. These include:

• Bolt-on acquisitions and exits
• Further funding rounds
• Institutional purchases
• MBO/MBI transactions
• Secondary buy-outs
• Venture capital investment

The team is well respected by peers and industry, and is familiar with market practice, affording specific focus for each client to deliver the best outcome for all parties.

Investee companies are provided expert advice from the Napthens team, whether that’s to founder shareholders or board members, on the changes which may be required to the company’s constitution, by the investor. This also includes details about the terms of the investment agreement and loan note instrument.

We also guide investors on the investment and funding structure they are going into and the best way to protect funds and ensure the correct legal framework is in place so that a return is protected.

Napthens acts for both investors and investee companies but pride ourselves in adopting a sensible constructive approach to the process, utilising knowledge and experience from across the wider team which includes working closely with our employment law, tax, and debt advisory specialists.