Focused on three core areas, namely venture capital, venture debt and corporate venture capital, Bird & Bird‘s practice is adept at advising investors, start-ups, scaleups and CVCs on fundraising and investment rounds, and venture debt financings, with a particular emphasis on the tech and IT sectors. With extensive experience in the VC space, co-head Lourdes Ayala advises fast-growing companies and investors on the life cycle of investments. Fellow co-head José Luis Lorente focuses on fintech matters, while Alberto Rodriguez is the name to note for search fund mandates.

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Key clients

  • Walter Ventures
  • Libnova S.l.
  • Cepsa Comercial Petróleo S.a.u.
  • Bike Occasion
  • Cabify España, S.l.
  • Andera Partners
  • Ing Bank Ventures
  • Homery Digital, S.l.
  • Programma 101
  • Iqvia Information, S.a.
  • Cdp Venture Capital Sgr (Italian Fondo Nazionale De Innovazione)
  • Jobandtalent Usa, Inc
  • Kreos Capital
  • We Are Knitters
  • Taxdown
  • Getlife
  • Pharmactive
  • SB Properties
  • Cubiq Foos

Work highlights

  • Advising Walter Ventures S.L., as lead investor, on an investment round for Nearby Computing,S.L., a company specialising in the development of software solutions related to the Cloud.
  • Advising Corporate Venture Capital ING Bank, N.V. on the last financing round of Spanish Fintech leading start-up Fintonic, which also included the capitalisation of several notes, warrants and convertible loans and the restructuring of part of the management of the company.
  • Advising Taxdown, S.L. on a new investment round with 4Founders Capital, Atresmedia and Mediaset as main investors, for a total amount of approximately €8m.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Lourdes Ayala, Jose Luis Lorente

Other key lawyers

Alberto Rodríguez, Isabel Rodriguez, Antonio Ballesteros