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    Venture Capital & Emerging Growth Companies

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    We view ourselves first and foremost as business lawyers. This mindset enables us to partner with clients from an early-stage, providing practical advice on structuring and capital raising, as well as in key mission-critical areas affecting their business, including complex and often uncertain regulatory regimes, cybersecurity and data privacy, IP licensing and collaborations, and competition laws.

    Investors turn to us at various entry points (from seed to growth equity stages) to help them develop optimal strategies at each stage of their evolution, from initial structuring and financing, regulatory analyses and diligence, to exit events. Drawing on our experience advising on some of the most prominent transactions and litigation in the world, we routinely represent:

    • Emerging growth companies at all stages of their lifecycle, including founder and early-stage exits;
    • Investors in investments in venture capital-backed companies; and
    • Companies and investors in acquiring emerging growth companies.

    Using our multidisciplinary approach, we assemble elite teams from our leading practices in M&A, Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Capital Markets, Finance, Litigation, Corporate Governance, Tax, Fintech, Insurance, Cybersecurity, Criminal Defense & Investigations and Technology, Media and Telecommunications and our strong presence in Silicon Valley.

    S&C’s non-U.S. offices are also an integral part of our venture capital and emerging growth companies practice, offering leading transactional advice in both domestic and multijurisdictional matters.

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    Carsten Berrar and Florian Späth Author Chapter in Inaugural Chambers Global Venture Capital 2024 Guide

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    Nader Mousavi Named a Law360 MVP for Technology

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    Top Ranked Law Firm

    M&A

    Recognized by

    • Chambers USA in Band 1 in Corporate/M&A and
    • named Law360’s M&A Group of the Year nine times since 2013 and
    • Law Firm of the Year four times since 2019

    #1 law firm by value in global M&A transactions in FY 2023 and over the last five years

    Capital Markets

    • named Law360’s Capital Markets Group of the Year for 2022 and 2023

    #1 law firm by value as issuer’s counsel in U.S. debt, equity and equity-linked offerings in FY 2023 and globally over the last five years

     

    Litigation

    Top ranked law firm for Litigation by Chambers USA, ranking Band 1 in General Commercial Litigation, Corporate Crime & Investigations, Securities Litigation and White Collar Crime & Government Investigations.

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    Experience

    Experience

    • American Express in its acquisition of substantially all of Kabbage and its investments in and acquisitions of various fintech companies
    • Booking Holdings in various matters, including its Series D funding (together with GIC) of Yanolja, bringing Yanolja’s valuation to more than $1 billion and its strategic partnerships with and investments in Grab Holdings and Didi Chuxing
    • ConsenSys in its Series A/B financing rounds (which included the acquisition of Quorum®, an enterprise-variant developed by J.P. Morgan), Series C financing round and $450 million Series D financing round, which brought its valuation to over $7 billion
    • Deutsche Börse in connection with its Corporate Venture Capital arm, DB1 Ventures, leading the Seed funding round in OptimX Markets

    • Goldman Sachs in Stripe’s 2023 Series I fundraise of more than $6.5 billion
    • HelloFresh in $277 million acquisition of Factor75 and, as German and U.S. counsel to the issuer, in its $370 million IPO
    • Kering in connection with Vestiaire Collective’s €178 million financing round, backed by Kering and Tiger Global Management
    • MUSIC as a co-investor in connection with Francisco Partners’ investment in Kobalt
    • simplesurance in its last financing round and subsequent acquisition by Allianz X
    • Verily Life Sciences in multiple funding rounds, including its $1 billion investment round led by parent company Alphabet and $1 billion investment round led by Silver Lake
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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises on Stripe’s $6.5 Billion Stock Private Placement

      April 12, 2023
    • Sarah Payne Talks to The Recorder About New Role as Managing Partner of Palo Alto Office

      February 22, 2022
    • S&C Advises Symbotic in $5.5 Billion Go-Public Merger with Softbank SPAC

      December 20, 2021
    • S&C Advises Booking Holdings in $1.2 Billion Acquisition of Getaroom

      November 18, 2021
    • S&C Advises Mynaric on Nasdaq IPO

      November 17, 2021
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • Federal Court Preliminarily Enjoins FTC’s Non-Compete Rule, but Declines to Grant Nationwide Preliminary Relief

      S&C Memos |  July 5, 2024
    • Carsten Berrar and Florian Späth Author Chapter in Inaugural Chambers Global Venture Capital 2024 Guide

      Articles |  June 6, 2024
    • Federal Trade Commission Issues Final Rule Banning Most Non-Compete Agreements with Workers

      S&C Memos |  April 24, 2024
    • Federal Court Strikes Down Corporate Transparency Act as Unconstitutional

      S&C Memos |  March 4, 2024
    • Corporate Transparency Act – Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting

      S&C Memos |  December 29, 2023
    • S&C Lawyers Author IAM Article on NFTs

      Articles |  March 1, 2022
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    Practice Contacts

    Practice Contacts

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    +1-650-461-5669
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