Private equity, venture and growth capital

We help you move your business forward, securing the equity investment you need to progress and de-risking where that is important to you.

Our experienced team provides support at all significant financial milestones, from accessing seed capital to management buyouts through primary and secondary private equity fundraisings to exit. Clients value our personal approach – commercial and pragmatic advice tailored to the unique demands of their transaction.

How we help:

  • Start up, seed, venture, angel, development, growth and other institutional investment.
  • Exits.
  • Management buy-outs and buy-ins.
  • Secondary and subsequent financings and buy-outs.
  • Public to private transactions.
  • Private equity, investment.
  • Debt and equity structuring, restructuring and prioritisation.

Our experience includes:

  • Advising US private equity firm Bright Path Sports Partners on its high-profile £105m investment (acquisition of just over 40%) in Championship football club, Ipswich Town.
  • Advising Business Growth Fund on various investment and exits, including two of the Top 50 SME’s as featured in The Sunday Times SME Export Track 100.
  • Advising US private equity firm Guidepost Growth Equity, a leading provider of regulatory reporting and compliance software, on its £42m investment in Kaizen Regtech Group Ltd and its subsidiaries.
  • Advising drinks company El Rayo on the successful completion of a funding round, raising £1.3m to support the company’s continuing growth strategy.
  • Advising Tetra Consulting Ltd, which provides property risk management services and software, on its significant investment by private equity firm CBPE Capital, which has taken a majority stake investing alongside the management team.
Stevens & Bolton provides very precise and practical advice based on the intricacies of the deal. It has responsive, friendly and commercially experienced lawyers with a client-focused mentality.
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