Laura Peachey

Partner

Corporate

Qualifications

LLB (Hons.).

Dip.LP.

Notary Public.

Memberships

Law Society of Scotland

Practice Areas

Start Ups

Capital Raising

Mergers & Acquisitions

Laura is a dual qualified lawyer specialising in Venture Capital and Angel investment. She also has significant Scots and English experience in UK and international M&A and has been involved in a three year programme led by SIB to deliver exit training to numerous high growth Scottish companies.

Laura joined MBM’s Corporate team in 2013 and since then she has routinely acted for VCs, investor syndicates, entrepreneurs and high growth companies in a wide variety of corporate finance transactions from seed investment up to Series A and B investment rounds, as well as complex, high value loan facility deals and joint ventures with trade investors.

In particular, Laura has significant experience in leading Series A and B investment deals, both on behalf of investors and investee companies. As such, she is acutely aware of the issues which can arise in such matters and is well-versed in managing the interests of, and leading negotiations between, existing shareholders and investors on the one hand with those of incoming VCs, to bring deals to a timely and successful conclusion.

She also assists client companies with matters arising in the day to day running of their businesses such as shareholder agreements, corporate governance and setting up share option schemes to incentivise key individuals.

“We have worked with quite a number of counsels at Signature in the mean time and I must say that working with you was not only very pleasant but also highly effective and efficient. I can't thank you enough, Laura, for having our backs and keeping our heads free to such extent. It allowed us to deal with a highly important deal in parallel which would have most likely not be possible without you handling the matter so perfectly.“

“MBM Commercial were outstanding when we ran into unexpected complexities in closing an investment round against a hard and very tight deadline. Laura worked long hours and late into the evening to seek creative solutions to challenges that threatened to derail the deal. She brought a welcome calm to what could have become a very heated event.“

Legal Experience

Advising in connection with the sale of a medical devices company.

Advising in connection with the sale of a credit management consultancy.

Acting for a high growth technology company in connection with a transaction involving a Series B fundraising and a joint venture licensing deal in the APAC region between the company and its lead investor.

Acting for a software company in connection with an investment of circa £9m involving new and existing angel investors and venture capital funds.

Acting for a various investors in connection with a £2.5m investment in a biopharma company, a £2m investment in a micro-precision optics company and a £4m investment in a biosciences company.

Acting for a fintech company in connection with an investment of £2.5m, including investment from venture capital funds and existing shareholders.

Acting for various client companies in connection with their crowd funding investments.

Advising various clients in connection with implementing EMI and unapproved option schemes.

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