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Barclays is a transatlantic consumer and wholesale bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the US.
With over 325 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 40 countries and employs approximately 83,500 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.
Results is an independent M&A and Fundraising advisor with a strong speciality in the technology sector. 50 strong with offices in London, New York and Singapore, they work mostly with fast growth, entrepreneur and PE-backed companies with between £5m and £50m revenues.
Recent transactions have included: Sale of cybersecurity software vendor, Avecto to Bomgar; having previously advised on a $49m fundraise from JMI Equity, the sale of Symphony, the leading consulting and systems integration provider in the robotic process automation space, the sale of Linguamatics, a natural language processing SaaS vendor to the life sciences industry
Taylor Wessing has been advising high growth companies for many years and are one of very few law firms to have a dedicated international corporate technology team, covering the major global tech hubs. We advise high growth companies throughout their lifecycle: from start-up to exit, as well as investors in and buyers of those companies.
We do this across all the major tech verticals such as Fintech, Gaming, eCommerce, AI and Biotech. Our lifecycle advisory practice provides us with a deep understanding of the needs of tech entrepreneurs and their businesses, and what investors in and buyers of those tech companies care most about.
Since Silicon Valley's formative years, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has held an established position as the leading law firm provider to innovative enterprises.
As our attorneys nurtured promising start-ups through the business life cycle, the firm expanded and so too did the range of services we offered to clients. Today, our attorneys advise more than 3,000 private companies, in addition to over 300 public companies. WSGR provides the comprehensive and integrated business services that private companies need, enabling the firm to serve them from their formative stages, during periods of growth, and certainly past their exits, whether through merger, acquisition, or transition into a public company.
We take an interdisciplinary approach to counseling entrepreneurs, offering deep expertise in such vital areas as Venture Financing/Private Equity; Corporate (M&A and Public Equity-IPO Exit); IP; Technology Transactions; Regulatory (Antitrust, Privacy & Data Protection, Exports, FCPA/CFIUS); Litigation; Employment Law (Executive Compensation/Benefits) and Real Estate.
Ireland’s inward investment promotion agency, IDA Ireland have partnered with over 1,400 clients, from global giants to the hottest high-growth brands. Companies tell us that a key reason for scaling their EMEA business from Ireland is their ability to source talent.
While Ireland has a long track record in attracting large multinational companies, its reputation for attracting high growth companies is also flourishing. Clients include Zendesk, Zalando, Intercom, Smartbox, Sage, Travelport, Neueda, TradeIX and Smartfrog.
IDA Ireland is actively supporting a number of fast growth companies in the UK as they internationalise, grow their businesses and find the right talent. The exciting commercial and creative mix on offer, together with a business-friendly environment and speed to market are key motivating factors.
Meet the team at Fast Growth Icons and find out about our wide range of complimentary services available to UK companies investigating how to grow and scale their business globally.
Finding the right talent can be the hardest challenge for Founders. Kandidate works with portfolio companies from 12 VC’s (Index, Balderton, Accel, Octopus) to help them build commercial teams.
We deliver talent via our matching platform which connects Sales, Marketing & Operations talent with jobs at VC backed startups via a personalised job search journey. We also run a highly experienced Talent Partner team who work onsite at clients offices to deliver recruitment at scale.
We are based in London with offices in Austin, Warsaw and Lisbon and hire in the UK, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the US.
