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Alex Lloyd

Partner

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About

Alex is a partner in our Corporate and M&A team, is a member of our Technology Transactions team and leads our Emerging Companies practice.

He has broad experience of both domestic and cross border private M&A, joint ventures and equity investments for individuals, major corporates and institutions with a focus on the technology sector. He is also experienced in supporting high growth start-up and scale up business in relation to corporate structuring and governance, venture capital and growth capital transactions.

Alex is listed as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500.

Experience

  • Fern Fibre Limited: Advised Fern Fibre Limited (advised by Octopus Investments) in relation to its acquisition multiple ‘FTTP’ businesses and the ultimate reorganisation of its fibre group to create a combined business with a combined funding package exceeding £750 million.
  • Hotjar: Advised the founders of Maltese-based international web analytics business on their c. $180 million UK law governed exit to Contentsquare (backed by BlackRock, SoftBank, KKR and others) alongside German, Spanish, US and Maltese counsel.
  • Dancerace: Advised the shareholders of this fintech business and provider of cloud-based software solutions for major banks and lenders on its acquisition by US based private equity firm Norland Capital.
  • Embark Group: Advised the digital retirement solutions platform business on multiple funding rounds (including from Blackrock, Merian Chrysalis, Franklin Templeton and others), over ten M&A transactions and its eventual £390 million exit to Lloyds Banking Group.
  • Legatics: Advised legal tech business Legatics on multiple funding rounds led by Gresham (formerly Mobeus) and US venture capital fund, FINTOP Capital.
  • We Are Nium: Advised clean ammonia business We Are Nium on its equity investment from US venture capital funds, AgFunder and DCVC.

Credentials

  • Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2012)

Areas of expertise

Sector focus

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“We have had an excellent experience working with Alex and the Burges Salmon team to bring this transaction to a close. We really felt like Alex took time to understand what terms would be important to us and worked really hard at every stage to make that happen.”

Anthony Seale (CEO) Legatics

“We’ve worked closely with Dancerace for a number of years and are incredibly proud of everything we’ve achieved together. We’re grateful to Alex and the team at Burges Salmon for guiding us through this complex process with clarity and straightforward advice.”

Peter Barrand, Managing Director at Newable Capital

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