Technology

Technology

In the fast-paced world of technology, having a legal partner who understands you, your investments, and your business is crucial. Forsters offers expertise tailored to the unique needs of the tech sector. We provide practical, commercial legal advice to help you navigate complex transactions and achieve both your business and your personal goals.

Our Approach

We manage all that we work on with precision, ensuring timely and successful delivery of your objectives. Our team becomes an extension of your own, offering no-nonsense advice and guidance.

Our Expertise

Our corporate and private wealth teams have years of experience advising in the technology sphere, with clients that operate in sectors such as artificial intelligence, F1 automotive technology, electrification, micro mobility, digital assets, and sports data analytics.

We have advised international technology clients on the acquisition of UK companies.  We have guided our clients, working closely with our trusted international partners, as they expand internationally or have sought exits. Along the way we help people with their general commercial contracting, employment, and tax matters, utilising our experience of the market to protect you and to let you commercialise your ideas.

Our leading private wealth team advise globally mobile clients, including high net worth individuals, family offices, and entrepreneurs.  We are experts in how best to structure your plans, whether in the UK or internationally.

Client Base

Our diverse client base, from tech startups to established industry leaders, as well as entrepreneurs, family offices, and high net worth individuals, showcases our versatility and the commercial acumen of our team.

Key experience

Advised cyber-security company

Advised a cyber security company specialising in supply chain management, on a Series A funding and investment from The Future Fund.

Advised Greybull Capital on acquisition

Advised Greybull Capital on the acquisition of McLaren Applied (a world leader in electronic control systems, electrification, connectivity and analytics), previously the technology division of the McLaren Group, and subsequently advised on the strategic bolt on acquisition of the micromobility business of Furosystems.

Advised BEDEO on acquisition

Advised BEDEO on the acquisition of Protean Electric Limited (a provider of in-wheel motor technology for electric vehicles that removes the need for a traditional engine) from Evergrande.

Acted for owners of Sports Alliance Ltd

Acted for the owners of Sports Alliance Ltd on the sale of the company to KORE Interactive Systems (USA), Inc. Sports Alliance, a sports data company which provides digital marketing solutions to its clients, was founded in 2002.

Advised on numerous angel investments

Advised on numerous angel investments made into various tech start-ups, operating in everything from sports science, to 3D printing, to healthtech.

Advised a digital assets start-up

Advised a digital assets start-up from incorporation through to an acqui-hire exit to a global technology business.

Acted for founders of Peakon ApS

Acted for two of the founders of Peakon ApS on the sale to NASDAQ listed Workday, Inc, in an all-cash deal valued at US$700 million.

Advised Net-a-Porter founder

Advised Net-a-Porter founder Mark Quinn-Newall’s Neurotribes investment fund on the sale of its substantial stake in Cult Beauty to The Hut Group for £275 million. Mark Quinn-Newall’s investment funds were the major shareholders and commercial drivers behind Cult Beauty.

Advised a Hong Kong energy technology company

Advised a Hong Kong energy technology company on its equity investment into an Austrian company with subsidiaries in various jurisdictions including Sweden.

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