Investment management

In collaboration with our family law experts, we advised in this high profile and complex divorce case which may be seen as the apogee of the English divorce jurisdiction's robust attitude towards offshore trusts. It marked the widening gap between the trust industry on the one hand and the family division on the other as to the respect to be accorded to trusts, and it remains a seminal case in this field today.

When he became engaged to a Swiss citizen, the son of a high-profile UK businessman asked us to help him obtain a British Passport and expatriate from the US. We were also asked to draft a prenuptial agreement. Timing was of the essence but as a global, full-service firm we created a team of immigration, family and private client lawyers to meet tight deadlines.

Withers has a century of experience in advising high net worth individuals and organizations. So we were pleased to work closely with seven principals of a $1 billion-plus fund to facilitate the most tax-efficient transfer of their interests in a new fund into wealth holding vehicles.

Our client suffered losses when they engaged a law firm to advise on their exit from the partnership of a hedge fund. We represented him on a claim of more than £5 million against the law firm for negligent advice.

We completed the formation and private offering of a US micro-venture capital fund focusing on the business-to-business digital marketplace and have advised on its investments in three portfolio companies: a platform providing athletes and parents with a suite of online tools to streamline the recruiting process; a platform providing restaurants with a trained food delivery staff and system as well as an app which communicates orders received by restaurants; and a platform that allows manufacturers and distributors in the IT sector to communicate with resellers of their products.

Acted for a Vietnamese property investment fund in its private placing/fundraising of USD$130 million to invest in commercial and property projects throughout Vietnam.

Acting for a sovereign fund (seller) with regard to disposal of all their shares in a BVI company to Middle Eastern HNWIs.

Handle sale out of multiple apartment assets owned by an offshore fund, together with windup of entity. Windup and liquidation of foreign corporation included issues of law of Curacao, Hong Kong and California/US.

Withers acted for Festicket Ltd on their $10.5M Series D venture funding round led by Beringea, with additional investors including InMotion Ventures, Channel 4's Commercial Growth Fund, Lepe Partners, U-Start and ex Spinnin' Records CEO Eelko Van Kooten.conversation. Better conversation, in turn, leads to stronger community and connection.

Withers acted for risk intelligence start up Arachnys on their $10M Series A venture funding round led by QED Investors, alongside other investors.

Withers acted for London based open source security company Snyk on their $22M Series B venture funding round led by Accel, with additional investors including Boldstart Ventures, GV and Heavybit.

Withers acted for the investors into online used car marketplace Cazoo Limited on their £30,000,000 Series A venture funding round with investors including Delin Ventures, Entrée Capital, Octopus Ventures, and Stride VC and dmg ventures.

Acted for ETF Partners, who led a $70M investment into E-Leather, a UK-based company developing patented high-tech materials technology. This Series C funding is for their partnership with Nike to develop the Flyleather line.

We advised on the acquisition of a popular preschool and English enrichment centre chain in Singapore.

Advising Draper Esprit on the US$60 million Series B funding of FintechOS, a leading European fintech whose technology dramatically reduces the time it takes for financial institutions to build end-to-end digital products.