James Homan - Taylor Wessing

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James is a partner and corporate lawyer who specialises in advising on complex cross-border business transactions, including M&A, IPOs, joint ventures, structured equity investments, venture capital and growth capital financing rounds.

James acts for clients all the way through the life cycle, including founders, growth companies, VC investors, institutions and listed companies (both LSE and Nasdaq), primarily in the technology and structured investment sectors.

James joined Taylor Wessing as a trainee in 2010.

CV

Since 2023 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2017 - 2023 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2012 - 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Career

Since 2023 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2017 - 2023 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2012 - 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2012 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales

2010 LPC distinction, BPP Law School

2008 LLB, University of Birmingham

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Experience

TSL Lombard

Advised on the sale of the business to Global Data plc.

Allocate Software

Advised Allocate Software plc on its £109 million recommended takeover by Hg Capital.

Pre-IPO funding rounds and IPOs

Various pre-IPO funding rounds and IPOs, including for FDM Group, Attraqt Group, Creo Medical, Sphere Medical, Rezolve, Tritax Big Box and Boku.

Tech funding rounds

Advising founders, companies and institutional investors on numerous venture and growth stage funding rounds, in the tech and life science sectors.

One.com

Advised Accel-KKR and the founders on the disposal of One.com to Cinven Private Equity.

Hilton Food Group

Hilton Food Group plc on its class 1 acquisition of Icelandic SeaChill, funded by a underwritten placing and senior debt package.

William Belcher

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Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Advising Oxford Cancer Analytics on Series A funding

13 January 2025

by multiple authors

Corporate/M&A & capital markets

Advising Rezolve AI on its listing on NASDAQ

23 August 2024

by Robert Fenner and James Homan

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Interface - The space race

The new space race – outlook and opportunities in 2024

James Homan and Timo Stellpflug look at the investment landscape for 'New Space' technologies.

2 May 2024

by James Homan and Timo Stellpflug

2 of 5 Insights

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