Bio

Nathan Guest has spent more than 20 years advising corporate clients on private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions and management buy outs. He acts for UK and international companies, although the majority of his clients are entrepreneurs/founders, start-ups and scale-ups, SMEs and management teams. Nathan is ideally placed to help clients to grow their business by raising angel, venture capital or private equity funding (including under the SEIS, EIS, or VCT schemes), or assist clients to exit their business via an M&A or MBO. Nathan leads VWV's national Technology practice, which he founded in 2008 and is also a key member of the firm's Pharma & Life Sciences team, leading VWV's work in supporting emerging life sciences companies. Nathan acts for a significant number of tech and life sciences start-ups (including University 'spin-outs'), scale-ups and other high-growth technology and life sciences companies and was previously judged by business publication, Corporate INTL, as the Emerging Companies Corporate Lawyer of the Year in England. Nathan regularly attends our free Lawyer-in-Residence or legal surgery sessions at: SETsquared Bristol, SETsquared Bath, Science Creates, Future Space, Bristol Robotics Lab, MedCity and Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst providing support for tech startups, and life sciences startup and early stage companies. He is frequently invited to serve as a judge or expert panel member in technology, life sciences and other business competitions/events and regularly runs webinars and other training sessions on the early stage investment and investment readiness.