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Strategic Tech Investments and M&A

Building your business's resources and skills through acquisitions and investment can be central to achieving your digitalisation strategy.

Buying a target business for its technology is often an attractive – and practical – option, offering a ready-made route for digitally transforming your products and service offerings. Or it can supercharge your business's digital know-how, bringing in new talent and skills.

Effective and strategic support from a legal team which understands how to deliver a successful tech acquisition or investment can make all the difference – speeding up the process, understanding and managing risk, helping to build and maintain relationships and maximising commercial advantage.

We have extensive experience of advising buyers, sellers and investors on tech-centric M&A transactions. We provide our clients with a seamless, single-team service, whether the deal is domestic or cross border, with specialists from across our international offices working together to deliver our clients' most critical and transformative transactions.

Our top-ranked venture capital practice also advises companies on corporate venture capital investments and the strategic partnerships that underpin our clients' digital transformation strategies.

Our expertise also plays into the wider legal issues around tech investments, whether that's foreign investment controls around strategic technology, evaluating the target's IP strategy, understanding the governance obligations on your directors as the business's digitalisation focus intensifies, or supporting integration of the target's tech specialists into your workforce.

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Nick Johnson
Partner, International Head of Tech, Media & Comms, UK
+44 20 7105 7080 Email Nick Full biog
Mathias Loertscher
Partner, UK
+44 20 7105 7528 Email Mathias Full biog
Stephanie Delage
Partner, France
+33 1 84 82 41 04 Email Stephanie Full biog
Dr Björn Hürten
Partner, Germany
+49 221 5108 4200 Email Björn Full biog
Katherine Kirrage
Partner, Transformation Manager – Digitalisation, UK
+44 207 105 7514 Email Katherine Full biog
Catherine Hammon
Digital Transformation Knowledge Lawyer, Head of Advisory Knowledge, UK
+44 207 105 7438 Email Catherine Full biog
Steve Wilson
Managing Partner, US
+1 917 545 3672 Email Steve Full biog
David Miranda
Partner, Spain
+34 93 419 18 18 Email David Full biog
David Haex
Managing Partner, Belgium
+32 2 515 9322 Email David Full biog
Jordi Casas
Co-Managing Partner, Spain
+34 93 419 18 18 Email Jordi Full biog
Nicolas Gabrysch
Partner, Germany
+49 221 5108 4178 Email Nicolas Full biog
Robin Eyben, LL.M.
Partner, Germany
+49 30 7262 18080 Email Robin Full biog
Konstantin Ewald
Partner, Head of Tech, Media and Comms, Germany
+49 221 5108 4160 Email Konstantin Full biog
Dr Martin Sundermann
Partner, Wirtschaftsmediator (MuCDR), Germany
+49 89 5434 8026 Email Martin Full biog
Philip Meichssner
Partner, Germany
+49 89 5434 8038 Email Philip Full biog
Josephine Healy-Russell
Senior Associate, UK
+44 207 105 7710 Email Josephine Full biog
Sam Furse
Associate, UK
+44 117 917 3039 Email Sam Full biog
Kevin Barrow
Partner, UK
+44 20 7105 7030 Email Kevin Full biog
Helga Butler
Immigration Manager, UK
+44 117 917 3786 Email Helga Full biog
James Taylor
Partner, UK
+44 117 917 3180 Email James Full biog
Pippa Byrne
Partner, UK
+44 207 105 7478 Email Pippa Full biog
Alexander Schlicht
Vice President Legal, Certified Specialist for Employment Law, US
+ 1 917 742 6021 Email Alexander Full biog
Alexandra Nautsch, LL.B.
Counsel, Germany
+49 40 55436 4044 Email Alexandra Full biog
Arne Katharina Ruhwinkel
Associate, Germany
+49 221 5108 4086 Email Arne Katharina Full biog
Dr Benjamin Monheim, LL.M.
Partner, Germany
+49 221 5108 4486 Email Benjamin Full biog
Leonie Schneider
Senior Associate, Germany
+49 221 5108 4160 Email Leonie Full biog
Sarah Julia von Buehler
Senior Associate, Germany
+49 221 5108 4486 Email Sarah Julia Full biog
Till-Manuel Saur
Partner, Germany
+49 30 7262 18021 Email Till-Manuel Full biog

How we've helped clients

Feedr

Advised Compass Group UK and Ireland, on its acquisition of Feedr - a mobile ordering and pre-pay technology enabling Compass to transform the way people interact with on-site restaurants, with employees able to browse menus, pay and collect more flexibly, enhancing their food at work experience.

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IoT connectivity

Advised Wireless Logic Group on its acquisition of M2MBlue, a Machine to Machine and IoT connectivity specialist with a focus on high-bandwidth applications. 

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Cloud-based marketplace

Advised Grifols on the acquisition of a 10% stake in Bloodbuy, a cloud-based marketplace that facilitates buying and selling of blood components in the US. 

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Start-ups

Advised Founders Factory on the launch of Founders Factory Hygiene and Home, a joint venture with Reckitt Benckiser (RB), to discover and develop start-ups who will transform the lives of consumers and create a cleaner world through cutting edge technology and innovation. 

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Feedr

Advised Compass Group UK and Ireland, on its acquisition of Feedr - a mobile ordering and pre-pay technology enabling Compass to transform the way people interact with on-site restaurants, with employees able to browse menus, pay and collect more flexibly, enhancing their food at work experience.

Learn more
IoT connectivity

Advised Wireless Logic Group on its acquisition of M2MBlue, a Machine to Machine and IoT connectivity specialist with a focus on high-bandwidth applications. 

Learn more
Cloud-based marketplace

Advised Grifols on the acquisition of a 10% stake in Bloodbuy, a cloud-based marketplace that facilitates buying and selling of blood components in the US. 

Learn more
Start-ups

Advised Founders Factory on the launch of Founders Factory Hygiene and Home, a joint venture with Reckitt Benckiser (RB), to discover and develop start-ups who will transform the lives of consumers and create a cleaner world through cutting edge technology and innovation. 

Learn more

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