Jack Christian is an associate in Goodwin’s Technology and Life Sciences groups in London. Jack advises clients on a broad range of corporate matters, with a focus on transactions in the life sciences, healthcare, and technology sectors. He has particular experience advising on private equity and venture capital investments/exits, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and re-organizations as well as general corporate matters. Jack advises clients through every stage of the corporate life cycle.
Experience
M&A Transactions
- TLC Worldwide on its investment from bd-capital to accelerate growth across new and existing geographies and products. TLC is the global market leader in tech-enabled, experience-based reward campaigns and loyalty programs
- ReViral Limited in respect of its agreement to be acquired by Pfizer, Inc. for up to $525 million
- Sportpursuit and its selling shareholders on the sale of a majority stake to BD-Capital
IPO
- Bicycle Therapeutics on its $60 million initial public offering on Nasdaq
Fundraising
- Cognitive Credit on its $10 million Series B round led by ETFS Capital, with participation from existing investor, XTX Ventures. Cognitive Credit is a UK-based software development company which provides the world's leading credit investors with specialist data and analytics to form smarter, faster credit views
- NodThera Limited on its $55 million Series B equity financing
- Wintermute on its $20 million Series B equity financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
- Lakestar on its £11 million lead investment in Uncapped Ltd
- Index Ventures on its $10 million lead investment into Radical HQ Limited
- Sprout.ai Limited on its £7,768,303 Series A funding round led by Octopus
- Danone Manifesto Ventures on its £2.2 million lead investment in Moju Ltd
Venture Capital
- Grasp on its seed financing round raising approximately $4 million
- Hoxton Farms Ltd, a UK startup, on its £2.7 million seed funding round led by Founders Fund
- Kitch, building delivery-first virtual kitchens, on its €2.5 million seed financing round led by Atlantic Food Labs GmbH
- Kosy Software, a UK startup building a better virtual office experience, on its €600,000 seed financing round led by Picus Capital GmbH
- Stride on its $1.5 million lead investment in Silverbird Global Limited
Areas of Practice
Professional Experience
Jack joined Goodwin in 2015.
Credentials
Education
Legal Practice Course2018
BPP Law School
(Distinction)
LLMCorporate and Commercial Law2015
London School of Economics
(Distinction)
LLBLaw with New Zealand Law2013
University of Nottingham
(First)
Admissions
Bars
- England and Wales
Recognition & Awards
2015 - Wolf Thesis Prize (London School of Economics: Corporate and Commercial LLM Award)