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Deepti Patankar

Deepti Patankar

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As an ex-founder, Deepti specialises in advising investors, high growth companies and their founders on funding rounds from seed stage to late stage and all the way to exits. Deepti also regularly acts on cross border M&A matters in the technology space. 

Deepti regularly advises companies ranging from early stage start-ups to late stage unicorns on a wide range of corporate matters including buybacks, internal business expansion and corporate restructurings. Her clients value her business background and commercial insight gained as a start-up founder who expanded her business across Europe and raising multiple rounds of funding. Deepti's practice is focused on technology start-ups with particular emphasis on crypto, SaaS and female led businesses. 

Expertise

Services and Groups

Venture capital
Corporate/M&A & capital markets
Artificial intelligence
Financing rounds (Seed, subsequent and growth financing) equity and non-equity instruments
Exit strategies (venture capital)
Start-up advice
M&A

Sectors

Technology, media & communications
Cryptoassets, blockchain and distributed ledger technology
Blockchain
Machine learning
Software

CV

2021 - 2023 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2014 - 2020 Co-founder, Hostmaker
2009 - 2014 Associate, Linklaters LLP
2007 - 2009 Trainee Solicitor, Linklaters LLP
2022 Admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales
2006 Admitted as a lawyer, India
2006 B.A. L.L.B (Hons), National Law School of India University, Bangalore

Career

2021 - 2023 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2014 - 2020 Co-founder, Hostmaker
2009 - 2014 Associate, Linklaters LLP
2007 - 2009 Trainee Solicitor, Linklaters LLP

Education

2022 Admitted as a solicitor of England and Wales
2006 Admitted as a lawyer, India
2006 B.A. L.L.B (Hons), National Law School of India University, Bangalore

Additional languages

Hindi Marathi English

Awards

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