Jack Christian

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.

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

Jack joined Goodwin in 2015.

2015 - Wolf Thesis Prize (London School of Economics: Corporate and Commercial LLM Award)