Tech Plus

The Tech+ newsletter is your essential download for making sense of the digital age.

By utilising the breadth and depth of its in-house expertise, BDB Pitmans' tech team is delighted to bring you a monthly update bursting with must-read insights and advice tailored to help you navigate the ever changing digital landscape.

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Legal support at every stage of the business lifecycle

BDB Pitmans is on hand to guide clients from beginning to end of the business life cycle. Whether you’re a start-up or a large tech company, our team is passionate about helping you to maximise the opportunities (and overcome the challenges) of a highly competitive landscape.

By taking a holistic view we are able to support clients through the unique pressures of the industry.

START-UP

Angel / Seed – Acting for founders and pre-revenue businesses on initial equity subscriptions, shareholders’ agreements and constitutional documentation.

Investment – Advising on all forms of investment into early stage businesses, including advice on tax-efficient schemes (SEIS / EIS / VCT).

GROWTH

Series A/B/C funding rounds – Assisting companies with strategic funding decisions, creating supportable equity investments and protecting founder shareholder positions. Acting for investors, confirming rights, ensuring provision of information, protecting minority positions.

PE – Acting for a variety of mid-market funds and companies receiving PE investments. Assisting with investments, MBO’s, MBIs and secondary buyouts.

Debt finance – Acting for a variety of borrowers (corporates, charities, individuals) and lenders (private banks, funds, HNWIs) on all debt finance requirements, including security and intercreditor arrangements.

MATURE

M&A – Advising selling shareholders on disposals and ensuring they are appropriately protected from contractual terms (eg warranties and restrictive covenants).

Listings – Main Market and AIM – Advising businesses on the process and regulatory requirements for listing on the London Stock Exchange. Acting alongside Nomads, brokers and accountants.

Takeovers – Acting for both offerors and targets on takeovers, by way of contractual offer or scheme of arrangement, hostile or recommended.

Meet the team

Philip Lamb

Partner

Philip has acted for a range of companies in the digital infrastructure space including County Broadband and Giganet and managed equity and debt investments in the tech space. He has been instrumental growing service providers from infancy to multimillion pound operations overseas.

Brian Gegg

Partner

Brian has acted for clients of many varieties in the IT and tech sectors and has particular experience in IT operations in the airline and payroll software industries.

Jonathan Colclough

Partner

Jonathan specialises in advising individuals on UK tax in relation to crypto assets on Wills, trusts, LPAs, and lifetime tax/wealth planning to include FICs and OEICs.

Oliver Willis

Partner

Julian Prentice

Legal Director

Julian undertook a secondment at one of the UK’s largest broadcasters and telecommunications companies and now regularly advises businesses in the tech sector on contract terminations and breaches of contract, as well as rights, obligations and risks within contracts.

Lorna du Sautoy

Partner

Lorna offers advice on the use of cryptocurrency in prime property transactions and the emerging digital land market as well as proptech.

Cheryl Fletcher

Senior Associate

Cheryl has advised Health Tech clients and an international online marketplace on a variety of disputes relating to breach of contract, IP infringement, breach of data protection and breach of the Electronic Commerce Regulations 2002.