Matthew Astbury

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Corporate

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Expertise

Matthew is a very experienced corporate lawyer with expertise across a broad range of venture capital, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Matthew advises public and private clients throughout the life cycle of investment, from start up and early-stage investment, through follow-on and fundraising rounds, acquisitions and disposals, and ultimately through to exits.

He works with funders, founders, advisors and management teams across all sectors.

Matthew has particular expertise advising fund raising and deployment for venture capital trusts and enterprise investment scheme funds and companies, and has advised on dozens of VCT IPOs and secondary fundraisings on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

Matthew excels in providing clear, direct and timely advice, ensuring clients secure the outcome they need to accelerate their success.

Matthew Advises

  • Founders
  • Funders
  • Investors
  • Investment banks and brokers
  • Investment funds
  • Management teams and boards

Experience Highlights

  • Advising a private UK company in the AI and robotics sector on the execution of a series of multi-million pound fundraisings from existing individual and corporate shareholders and from new investors.
  • Advising a private UK company in the renewable heat tech sector on an equity fundraising and the concurrent conversion of a Future Fund convertible loan into shares.
  • Advising a group of angel investors on a mixed equity and debt investment into a private company that provides short term lending to retail borrowers.
  • Advising a Polish listed company on its acquisition of a UK stem cell banking business.
  • Advising a Hong Kong listed technology fund on its investment in a UK private limited company in the aerospace sector.
  • Advising an unlisted public company, on its acquisitions of a series of music festivals, and associated corporate finance through debt and EIS qualifying equity fund raisings and the subsequent trade sale of its business.
  • Advising Blackfinch Renewable European Income Trust plc on its proposed IPO.
  • Advising Everyman Media Group plc, an AIM traded company, on a placing and open offer.
  • Advising Tasty plc, an AIM traded company, on a placing and open offer.
  • Advising Mirada plc on its proposed approval of loan to equity subscription rights and associated waiver of obligations under Rule 9 of the Takeover Code.
  • Advising Comptoir Group plc on its admission AIM (and on a subsequent placing).
  • Advising Filta Group Holdings plc on its admission to AIM.

Career History

Previous Law firms

  • Howard Kennedy
  • Speechly Bircham
  • Mishcon de Reya

Education

  • Inns of Court School of Law (City, University of London)
  • College of Law
  • University of Southampton

Expertise

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Matthew is a very experienced corporate lawyer with expertise across a broad range of venture capital, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Matthew advises public and private clients throughout the life cycle of investment, from start up and early-stage investment, through follow-on and fundraising rounds, acquisitions and disposals, and ultimately through to exits.

He works with funders, founders, advisors and management teams across all sectors.

Matthew has particular expertise advising fund raising and deployment for venture capital trusts and enterprise investment scheme funds and companies, and has advised on dozens of VCT IPOs and secondary fundraisings on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

Matthew excels in providing clear, direct and timely advice, ensuring clients secure the outcome they need to accelerate their success.

Matthew Advises

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  • Founders
  • Funders
  • Investors
  • Investment banks and brokers
  • Investment funds
  • Management teams and boards

Experience Highlights

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  • Advising a private UK company in the AI and robotics sector on the execution of a series of multi-million pound fundraisings from existing individual and corporate shareholders and from new investors.
  • Advising a private UK company in the renewable heat tech sector on an equity fundraising and the concurrent conversion of a Future Fund convertible loan into shares.
  • Advising a group of angel investors on a mixed equity and debt investment into a private company that provides short term lending to retail borrowers.
  • Advising a Polish listed company on its acquisition of a UK stem cell banking business.
  • Advising a Hong Kong listed technology fund on its investment in a UK private limited company in the aerospace sector.
  • Advising an unlisted public company, on its acquisitions of a series of music festivals, and associated corporate finance through debt and EIS qualifying equity fund raisings and the subsequent trade sale of its business.
  • Advising Blackfinch Renewable European Income Trust plc on its proposed IPO.
  • Advising Everyman Media Group plc, an AIM traded company, on a placing and open offer.
  • Advising Tasty plc, an AIM traded company, on a placing and open offer.
  • Advising Mirada plc on its proposed approval of loan to equity subscription rights and associated waiver of obligations under Rule 9 of the Takeover Code.
  • Advising Comptoir Group plc on its admission AIM (and on a subsequent placing).
  • Advising Filta Group Holdings plc on its admission to AIM.

Career History

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Previous Law firms

  • Howard Kennedy
  • Speechly Bircham
  • Mishcon de Reya

Education

  • Inns of Court School of Law (City, University of London)
  • College of Law
  • University of Southampton