How can emerging companies navigate the world of private capital?
Businesses seeking investors depend on trusted partnerships to ease the way. Here's how one collaborative relationship is bearing fruit
Private Capital has always been in Fladgate's DNA. We've worked with hundreds of Family Offices, Funds, Private Banks, Alternative Lenders and Privately funded businesses at all stages of their respective lifecycles. We also have a very strong and fast expanding Private Client team who understand the needs of UHNWIs, families and their advisors.
“Our clients in the world of Private Capital are characterised by seeking fluid and frictionless growth. Our dynamic, pace-based approach to working with them is a proven* advantage.”
*A survey of over 300 of our clients showed that Fladgate scores up to 20% higher than other firms that they use when it comes to delivering a personal, agile, clever and enterprising service.
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Our Expertise
Private Funds (VC & PE)
We offer a full range of legal services from a fund’s inception right through to its dissolution or disposal, including potential restructuring and consideration of exit strategies (such as AIM/full market listing, buyout, and portfolio sale). Our advice covers structuring, taxation, regulation, financing, marketing an equity raising, establishment, operation and winding-up as well as reorganisation, investor participation and secondary transactions.
Privately funded Businesses
We work for many of the leading and fast-moving trend initiator businesses that are often founder or management team owned and privately funded. We support them with legal services at all stages of their development from Employment, Tax, Disputes, Competition, Contracts, Data protection, Digital business and ecommerce, IP, Outsourcing, through to M&A, trade sales and going public.
Private Banks & Alternative lenders
Our team has extensive international experience, working with clients including both domestic and foreign banks, investment firms and other companies. We understand the regulatory environment in which our clients operate and the diverse range of financing structures now available. We also act for new entrants to the financial services market, helping them establish new businesses and ensuring regulatory compliance. The team has extensive experience around regulatory investigations and similar challenges.
Family offices & Trustees
We specialise in advising on all aspects of wealth structuring and wealth transfer. We support high net worth individuals and families, both in the UK and internationally, including when they are looking to create family offices. We work with family offices to create investment structures through which a family’s investments can be managed – for example a family investment company, an OEIC or a fund – including agreeing the role of the family office in the management, supervision and reporting arrangements around this vehicle.
Our Work
Our Work
We’re proud to announce that Fladgate has joined Philanthropy Impact as a Gold member and Sponsor.
Philanthropy Impact’s mission is to foster collaboration across philanthropy, social investment, ESG & impact sectors to amplify capital flow for social good. We’re delighted to be part of & sponsor such a unique non-profit to support their work with private clients & families in advancing purpose driven wealth strategies.
Insights from our partners
“Up to 50% of lending now comes from funds as opposed to the traditional banking sector, a great opportunity for our clients.”
Grant Gordon
Partner
“There is this intergenerational transfer of wealth, and the new gen taking over are doing things slightly differently to what their parents and grandparents did.”
Mythily Katsaris
Partner
“There’s a trend we’re seeing where a lot of deals are being driven by non-traditional forms of capital. Traditionally most deals had some kind of bank finance behind them but now there’s a lot more private funds and family offices.”
Howard Watt
Partner
“More than 1/3 of start up capital is being driven by family offices, in the US, the UK, India, France & Germany. This is really quite a large market to play with.”
Jonathan Riley
Partner
