Tech excites us – and if you’re taking your business to the next level through tech transactions, you need our knowledge of the technology itself as well as corporate expertise. Your company will be more successful when it maximises the value of technology and IP – a cornerstone of our practice.

To succeed in today’s fast-paced business environment you need advisers that bring a commercial outlook and market perspective from the get-go. Our focus on pre and post-transaction aspects such as planning and post-merger integration leave no stone unturned.

We believe in practical, proactive advice with a personal touch. Our 200 lawyers across Europe, Asia and the Middle East advise on all forms of corporate finance from private and public M&A, to private equity, IPOs and joint ventures together with all of the corporate governance and company advice needed.

We use tech solutions to underpin smart, useful advice that benefits our clients – not for the sake of it.

Whatever your size, stage in lifecycle or sector you’ll benefit from having our talented deal-makers onboard.

If you would like to know more about working with us, please contact Co-Heads Peter Veranneman in Germany and Stefano Silvestri in the United States. 

 

Recent highlights of work

  • Advised Darktrace, the machine-learning cyber security company, on its latest investment which tipped the company's value over the magical $1USD billion mark ($USD 1.25 billion), making it the firm's latest Unicorn.
  • Advised as Singapore counsel to Clearbridge Health, a medtech investor, on the proposed initial public offering of 88 million shares at 28 cents each on the Catalist board of the Singapore Exchange to raise net proceeds of S$21.4 million to build a business focused on precision medical services.
  • Advised US life sciences company Unchained Labs on the acquisition of German rap.ID Particle Systems GmbH. The transaction was managed in only four weeks, including due diligence, negotiations and notarization of the share purchase agreements with a focus on intellectual property rights. In connection with this transaction, Unchained Labs raised $17 million in a series D financing. Novo Ventures, Canaan Partners, TPG Biotech and Tri-Valley Ventures all participated in the financing.

Accolades

  • Band 1 in Hungary for Commercial, Corporate and M&A

    Legal 500 2018 EMEA

  • Band 1 listing for Cuba: Corporate/Commercial: Lawyers Based Abroad

    Chambers 2017 Latin America

  • Band 1 listing: Corporate and commercial – commercial contracts and Corporate and commercial – Venture capital

    Legal 500 2017 UK

  • Experienced AIM group capable of advising on IPOs, secondary fund-raisings and M&A transactions.

    Chambers UK 2017

  • The team continues to impress with its core of dedicated corporate practitioners with a niche expertise in the TMT and life sciences industries.

    Chambers Asia-Pacific

  • “… makes full use of its global network and full-service approach to provide a strong M&A practice.”

    Chambers Europe

  • ‘’One of the team’s strengths is that the lawyers have clear specialisations, and are very knowledgeable in their respective fields’’.

    Chambers Europe

  • Well versed in cross-border transactions in the TMT, healthcare, and energy and utilities sectors. Impressive client roster includes a number of highly active fast-growth companies.

    Chambers UK

  • Bird & Bird’s ‘strengths are industry knowledge, fast responses and competence’.

    Legal 500 EMEA

News & Events

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    S$75 Million Grant to Pave the Way to Singapore's Equity Market

    Come February, enterprises will be able to tap into a S$75 million grant administered by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for help with fund raising through Singapore's equity market. The Grant for Equity Market ...

  2. 2712-2018

    The Public Markets in Singapore 2018: A Summary

    2018 is an "annus mirabilis", a year of notable changes to the regulatory landscape of the public markets in Singapore. Various changes were made to the Code of Corporate Governance ("Code"), the listing manual ...

  3. 0712-2018

    Singapore Regulatory Update: Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Bill

    Boey Swee Siang, Marcus Chow and Anisha Jalla summarise Singapore's new Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Bill; looking at restrictions on ipso facto clauses, judicial management, wrongful trading, the licensing ...

  1. 0801-2019

    International law firm Bird & Bird advise UK FinTech company Earthport on its proposed recommended takeover by Visa for £198 million

    Bird & Bird has been acting for Earthport since 2009 and was appointed to take the company through its global expansion over the last 10 years.

  2. 0312-2018

    Bird & Bird boosts its Corporate practice with the appointment of Life Sciences expert Michiel Wurfbain as a partner in The Hague

    International law firm Bird & Bird today boosts its Corporate practice with the appointment of life sciences expert Michiel Wurfbain as a partner in The Hague.

  3. 2311-2018

    Bird & Bird advises Pioneer Point Partners on acquisition of UK energy platform Brockwell Energy Limited

    International law firm Bird & Bird has advised Pioneer Point Partners, a private investment partnership that specialises in infrastructure assets in the energy and environmental sectors, on the acquisition of UK energy ...

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