Jamie Moore
Partner
London
Jamie's practice focuses on venture capital with significant experience in advising start-ups through to unicorns.
Jamie acts for both early and late stage companies in intellectual property rich sectors and those who invest in them, including some of the most active venture capital funds, corporate or individual investors.
Jamie has a passion for disruptive technologies, innovation and entrepreneurial business. He has acted on countless transactions across a broad range of sectors both in the UK and internationally, but is most known for his experience in acting on investments into fintech and Artificial Intelligence companies.
Jamie has deep knowledge of the practice area in which he operates and market trends, which he leverages to provide clear and concise advice on a range of corporate issues taking high growth technology companies from start-up through to exit.
He presents on corporate law and venture capital to clients and at seminars in the City, including practitioners’ conferences on practical legal issues in venture capital transactions and SEIS/EIS investments.
An active participant in the venture capital community, Jamie Moore has contributed to industry standard form documentation, acted as a mentor for various Seedcamp portfolio companies and hosted office-hours for the Barclays' TechStars cohort.
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Jamie's recent representations include the following:
Private Equity / M&A:
- Acted for Sonantic in relation to the sale of the company to Spotify
- Acted for Marlin Equity Partners on closing its acquisition of a minority interest in SmartCredit Limited (t/a "SmartSearch")
- Assisted on the sale of Cloudpipes Group Ltd to Quickbase UK Ltd.
Fintech:
- Acted for WealthKernel in relation to its $7 million Series A+ financing round, led by XTX Markets with participation from Digital Horizon, Big Start Ventures and ETFS Capital
- Acted for 9fin in relation to its £8 million Series A financing round, led by Redalpine and Fly Ventures
- Acted for TransferGo in relation to its $50 million Series C financing round, led by new investors Elbrus Capital and Black River Ventures
- Acted for Stripe in relation to its investment in the $130 million Series E financing of TrueLayer, led by Tiger Global and with participation from Addition Capital
- Acted for Revolut in relation to its $250 million Series C financing round
- Acted for Revolut Ltd in relation to its £7.75 million investment from Balderton Capital, Ribbit Capital and others
- Acted for Revolut in its $66 million Series C financing
- Acted for TransferGo Holdings Limited in relation to its €3 million Series A4 investment from Vostok Emerging Finance
- Acted for Stripe and Goodwater Capital on a $93 million Series D financing round in Monzo
- Acted for PQ Solutions Limited in relation to its $10.3 million Series A investment from Hong Kong based VMS Investment Group and AM Partners
- Acted for Railsbank Technology Limited on its £820k Seed Financing from Firestartr, AngelList and others
- Acted for Local Globe in relation to £1.1 million investment in online mortgage advisor, Trussle
- Acted for Northzone in relation to £6 million Series A funding round in MarketInvoice
- Acted for Stripe, Inc and Goodwater Capital on an £85 million Series E financing in Monzo
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence:
- Acted for Graphcore in its US$30 million Series A funding round led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH and Samsung Catalyst Fund
- Acted for Graphcore in relation to its $50 million Series C financing by Sequoia Capital
- Acted for Atomico in relation to their investment into CloudNC
- Acted for Graphcore on its $225mm Series D round of financing led by Atomico and Sofina Partners
- Acted for Prowler.io in relation to its $24 million Series B financing round led by Tencent
- Acted for Amadeus Capital Partners in relation to leading the $4.6 million Series A funding round in Immense Simulations, co-led by Global Brain Corporation
- Acted for Sonantic in relation to the sale of the company to Spotify
Internet of Things / ISPs:
- Acted for Connexin in relation to its acquisitions of Pure Broadband and Wisper Broadband
- Acted for Connexin in relation to its £10 million Series A investment led by Digital Alpha Advisors
- Acted for Chargifi Limited in relation to its $2.7 million Series A investment led by Intel Capital
E-commerce:
- Acted for JD.com on its US$397 million investment in Farfetch
- Acted for ASA54.com Limited in relation to $1.8 million angel funding round
- Acted for Connect Ventures in relation to £2 million Series A funding round in Knyttan Limited
Mobile / Software:
- Acted for Citymapper Limited in relation to its multi-million Series A funding round in 2014, from Balderton Capital, Connect Ventures, Index Ventures and Greylock Partners
- Acted for Connect Ventures, RTA Ventures and Point Nine Capital in relation to $15 million Series A round led by Index Ventures in Barcelona-based Typeform
- Acted for Gunjin Games in relation to $1.3 million funding round led by Smurfit Family Investments
Food Tech:
- Acted for Butternut Box in relation to its £1 million seed financing led by Passion capital, its $7 million Series A financing led by White Star Capital and Literacy Capital, its $15.5 million Series B financing led by Five Seasons Ventures and White Star Capital, its Series C financing, £40 million Series D financing rounds led by L Catterton and £280 million in additional financing led by General Atlantic and L Catterton.
- Acted for SCA Investments Limited (t/a Gousto) in relation to its Series J investment round in 2016 (totalling £20 million in two closes) from (amongst others) MMC Ventures, BGF Ventures and Angel CoFund
Social / Platform:
- Acted for Delin Capital in relation to £1.3 million Series A funding round in Vidsy
- Acted for DN Capital in relation to $2 million seed funding round in Flying Jamon Ltd (Hostmaker)
- Acted for Plu&m Limited in relation to its £5.7 million Series A financing by Octopus Ventures and BGF Ventures
- Acted for Connect Ventures and MMC Ventures in relation to a multi-million Series A investment in Mastered Limited
Biotechnology:
- Acted for the Founders of Morphogen-IX Limited (Cambridge based biotech company) in relation to spin out from Cambridge University and £1.5 million seed funding led by Index Ventures, along with Cambridge Innovation Capital and Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds
- Acted for Delin Ventures in relation to $9.4 million seed funding round in Ori Biotech.
