Jamie Hamilton

I represent innovative start-up and scale-up companies and their investors across all areas of the venture and growth capital ecosystem. I am constantly amazed at the array of original business ideas and talented, passionate founders that I encounter in this work, and I am privileged to be able to play a part in helping them to achieve success.

I particularly enjoy the challenge of structuring transactions in order to strike the balance of alignment of interests between founders and investors that is so crucial to success. I also enjoy bringing the diverse range of expertise within Fladgate to bear in order to help our clients to achieve their goals.

I act for a range of investors including VC funds, corporate venture divisions, family offices and HNWIs, and understand the particular dynamics that each investor type brings. A lot of my work is international and I enjoy working with clients and lawyers in other countries to deliver complex cross-border projects.

Away from work, I am a huge enthusiast for the outdoors – especially the mountains – and for most sports. I am also an enthusiastic guitarist and bagpiper.

• Ocado Ventures on:
  • its investment into Karakuri (food production robotics);
  • its acquisition of a majority stake in Jones Food Company (indoor vertical farming); and
  • its cross-border joint venture with 80 Acres Farms and Priva Meetservice, named Infinite Acres (indoor vertical farming).

• Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments as lead investor in the Series A round of Zephr, Inc. (B2B digital media optimisation software)
  
• RTP Global as lead investor in the Series A round of Cuckoo Broadband (challenger broadband provider)
• Bridford Investments as lead investor in:
  • the £42m capital raise of Touchlight, a genetics company that develops and manufactures DNA for medical application including in vaccine production; and
  • the £24m capital raise of Meatless Farm, a developer of plant-based meat substitutes.
• Patron Capital (international real estate PE fund) on its exits from Arlington Business Park and Luxury Family Hotels