DLA Piper

Benefitting from a heightened focus within the venture space in recent years, including - for the first time in the UK - a discrete internal emerging companies offering, DLA Piper continues to gain traction in the market for an investor focused client base within the tech and life sciences sectors, in particular. The firm is best-suited to handling Series A investments through to exit, although it does also handle some earlier stage work for many of its corporate venture clients, which are an important constituent of its investor client base, alongside institutional investors. Team head Luca Gori has ‘deep expertise in venture capital transactions’, particularly in the fintech and insurtech space, where as well as advising on purely domestic mandates, he is also adept at handling cross-border mandates, where he is able to draw from resources throughout the firm’s global network of offices. Senior associate Dylan Kennett has ’an indefatigable work ethic’, which he effectively deploys for the firm’s core investor client base, as well as some investees.