England - East Anglia • Corporate and commercial
Withers LLP
The Cambridge office of Withers LLP is the firm’s UK life sciences hub and clients note that ‘the corporate team has deep specialist knowledge of venture capital transactions in the technology sector’. The Cambridge team consists of lead partner Susanna Stanfield, who has ’deep specialist knowledge in venture capital transactions and is an authority in the field‘, and senior associate Mary Harley. They work closely with IP specialist Richard Penfold and venture capital expert James Shaw, who both work in Cambridge and London, as required. Stanfield advised biotech research firm Kynos Therapeutics on its spin-out from the University of Edinburgh and its £9m financing round.
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Testimonials
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‘Withers' corporate team in Cambridge has deep specialist knowledge of venture capital transactions in the technology sector.’
‘Susanna Stanfield has deep specialist knowledge and is an authority in the field.’
‘One strength is that Withers demonstrate quite clearly a collaborative approach and a 'one team' ethos.'
Key clients
- Acin
- Activum SG Ventures SCSp
- Altruistic Innovations Ltd
- Amadeus Capital
- Automata
- Aztec
- Cambridge Innovation Capital
- CellCentric Limited
- Climate Edge Limited
- Clowdy Group Limited (trading as Twine)
- Coople UK Limited
- Codebay Solutions Limited (trading as Lodgify)
- Critical Pressure Limited
- Diligen Holdings LLP
- Doctify Limited
- Elasmogen Limited
- Emerge Venture Lab Ltd
- Entrepreneurs Fund General Partner Ltd
- ETF Partners LLP (Previously ETF Manager LLP)
- Fig Leaf Promotions Limited (trading as Maths No Problem)
- GoWorkaBit
- Guy's & St Thomas Foundation
- In3Bio Research Ltd. (formerly Bioven (Europe) Limited)
- Kynos Therapeutics Ltd
- Limonaia Limited
- LocalGlobe X, LP
- Lyfstone AS
- Mangrove Ventures
- Meatable B.V.
- Medovate Limited
- Melico Sciences Limited
- MEVOX Ltd.
- Mirzyme Therapeutics Limited
- Mologic Ltd.
- Molten Ventures
- Nature Metrics Ltd
- Oja Global Ltd
- Papier Ltd
- Parcelly Limited
- Akamis Ltd (formerly PsiOxus Ltd)
- Parkinson's Disease Society
- Provenance
- Quaisr Limited
- Racketpal Limited
- Regenerate Ventures Limited
- Relayer Ltd
- Roslin Technologies Limited
- Satisfed Limited
- Signatur Biosciences Inc
- Skiller Whale Limited
- Snap HR Limited (formerly Circalit Limited)
- Solveteq Ltd
- Start Codon Ltd
- Story Terrace Ltd
- Stress Point Health Limited
- Synthesized Ltd
- Testcard Ltd
- Vinterior Holdings Limited
- YLD Limited
- Nationwide Engineering Research and Development
Work highlights
- Advised biotech research firm Kynos Therapeutics on its spin out from the University of Edinburgh and its £9m financing round.
- Advised on a $30m Series B funding round.
- Advised biologics company Elasmogen Ltd in securing an £8m investment round and on commercial matters such as complex licensing and collaboration agreements and IP protection.
Lawyers
Leading individuals
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Susanna Stanfield