Andrew Davis

Andrew’s primary focus is on advising technology and other IP rich companies, their investors and acquirers. Andrew’s practice spans the entire corporate life cycle, including venture and growth capital financings, cross border acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, general corporate representation and corporate governance. Andrew is co-chair of Goodwin's Global Tech M&A group, based in London.

Legal 500 Client Testimonials:

• Andrew Davis is just remarkable. He has a huge amount of expertise and is a joy to work with. In any transaction 101 different issues are going to emerge and he just steers you through them all with confidence, charm and humour.
• Andrew Davis has immense gravitas.
• Andrew Davis is phenomenal. Andrew is a genius at explaining even the most complex legal issues in terms understandable to lay people and offering options for resolutions. 
• Andrew Davis… shows business acumen, attention to detail, and common sense.

   

Andrew’s representative experience includes the following:

Venture and Growth Financings

• Benchmark – on its lead investment into the $24 million Series A financing of 11x, who provide AI-powered digital workers that autonomously execute workflows traditionally performed by employees in GTM teams
• Vertice – on its $25 million Series B fundraise co-led by 83North and Bessemer Venture Partners. Vertice is a London-based tech-enabled SaaS and cloud spend management company which is designed to help businesses reduce their annual software and cloud spend by 20-30% as well as streamlining the purchasing process
• Build A Rocket Boy – on an over $110 million Series D fundraising. Build A Rocket Boy is an independent game developer and publisher.
• Oxford Quantum Circuits – on its $100 million Series B financing, which is the UK’s largest ever Series B in quantum computing. OQC is a global leader in quantum compute-as-a-service (QCaaS)
• GoMetro – on its £9 million Series A financing round, led by Zenobē Energy. GoMetro is a South African technology company that operates in the fleet management space
• Bloom – on its $10 million seed financing round. Backers included Octopus Ventures and MMC. Bloom is a UK-based, next-generation coaching platform offering accelerated professional growth to people at work
• Blackfin Capital Partners – as the lead investor in a £10 million Series B funding round for Timeline, a UK fintech company that develops and offers a financial planning and portfolio management tools
• Accel – as lead investor in the $90 million Series C fundraising round for Synthesia, an artificial intelligence-based video generation platform
• Matillion – on its $150 million Series E funding round, led by General Atlantic. Andrew also advised Matillion on two follow-on investments by Snowflake and Databricks. Matillion is an easy-to-use cloud-native data integration and transformation platform
• Lightspeed Venture Partners – on its lead investment into a $100 million Series B extension funding round for Payhawk, a business spend management platform intended to provide assistance to small businesses in dealing with expenses
• Zapp – on its $200 million Series B funding round co-led by Lightspeed, 468 Capital, and BroadLight Capital. Zapp is an on-demand convenience start-up which launched in 2020, focused on delivering drinks, snacks, grocery essentials, and other everyday items within minutes
• Isometric – on its $25 million seed financing round led by Lowercarbon Capital and Plural. Isometric has developed a Science Platform and is developing a carbon removal registry to ensure that the transition to carbon removal happens responsibly and fast
• Vivid Money – on its $114 million Series C financing round, and on its $73 million Series B funding round, both led by Greenoaks Capital. Vivid Money is a German-based fintech startup which provides a financial services platform combining mobile banking, investments and crypto in one app that helps customers save and invest their money
• Left Lane Capital – on its lead investment in a $69 million Series B round and subsequent £30 million convertible loan note financing for Freetrade, a UK based financial technology company which offers a freemium share dealing service
• Continuum Industries – on its $10 million Series A financing round led by Singular. Continuum Industries provides an AI powered infrastructure development platform that enables power, utility and renewables companies to comprehensively assess routing options for power lines, cables and pipelines
• Lightspeed Venture Partners – on its lead investment into a $25M Series A equity round for Lightyear, an investment application designed to invest money globally without unnecessary barriers or fees
• UrbanChain – on its £5.25 million Series A financing round led by Eurazeo. UrbanChain is a UK company operating and developing a peer-to-peer energy exchange platform for renewable asset developers, prosumer corporates and energy brokers and consultants
• Helio – on its $3.3 million in Seed funding led by Peak and Lightspeed Faction. Helio is a Web3 payments platform designed to integrate crypto payments into the online checkout process
• Passionfruit – on its $3.6 million Seed financing co-led by Firstminute Capital and Playfair. Passionfruit is a UK company that develops a platform to connect fast-growing businesses with next generation of independent marketing talent
• Screenloop – on its £5.74 million Seed investment led by Stride. Screenloop is an interview intelligence platform designed to help businesses to hire the right people faster
• Sequence – on a $19 million seed financing led by Andreessen Horowitz. Sequence HQ is a financial operations workflow automation software
• Norrsken – on its lead investment into a $15 million seed round for Altruistiq, a specialist in carbon reporting software

Andrew's investor clients include: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Benchmark, Accel Partners, Ribbit Capital, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, Left Lane Capital, Playfair, Norssken, BlackFin Tech, SJF Ventures, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Sustainable Future Ventures.

M&A

• 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
• an affiliate of ZQ Capital – on its Mandatory Takeover Offer Allergy Therapeutics and related financing
• Boclips – on its acquisition by Achieve Partners. Boclips is a cloud-based education video licensing platform designed to offer access to rights-ready video clips
• Future Health Works – on its sale to HOPCo, a provider of the musculoskeletal-based outcome, service line and practice management services.Future Health Works’ assets included a remote patient monitoring and patient feedback platform, artificial intelligence platform, computer vision platform and patented motion capture technology
• Mayfair Equity Partners – on its take private of Seraphine plc., a premium-listed maternity wear company
• Sky Ocean Ventures – on joining Founders Factory’s Planet Fund, a ClimateTech impact fund investing in the next generation of Planet Positive technologies
• Limelight Networks – on its $300 million acquisition of Edgecast Networks. The combined company rebranded as Edgio and is the global lead provider in edge-enabled software solutions
• FARO® Technologies – on its acquisition of GeoSLAM, a global market leader in 3D geospatial technology solutions
• Sky Ocean Ventures – on the sale of Choose Packaging to HP (formerly Hewlett-Packard). Choose Packaging is a manufacturer of packaging products intended to provide a plastic-free solution to everyday products
• Miro – on its acquisition of Qualdesk, a developer of cloud-based whiteboarding software designed to help capture ideas, make sense of data and prioritize tasks
• Weezy – on its sale to Getir, an online on-demand marketplace app designed to deliver groceries and other goods on short notice
• Playco – on its acquisition of Goodboy, the developer of an HTML5 game engine
• Springer Nature – on its acquisition of the British Journal of Cancer Publishing platform, a twice-monthly professional medical journal owned by Cancer Research UK, and the sale of Red Globe Press to Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Red Globe Press, formerly the textbook division of Palgrave Macmillan, publishes quality textbooks primarily in Social Sciences, Humanities, Business and Study Skills

The following testimonial was published in The Legal 500, UK.

• “Andrew Davis is phenomenal. Andrew is a genius at explaining even the most complex legal issues in terms understandable to lay people and offering options for resolutions.”