Leading mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, growth equity, startup, fintech and equity capital markets lawyer in the Asia Pacific region. Partner at global law firm DLA Piper. Legal counsel of choice/long term trusted advisor to many of the fastest growing tech companies in the Asia Pacific region and to VC, growth equity and private equity funds and ASX and US listed multi-nationals. Tech sector and emerging growth company specialist who advises clients at all stages of development from start ups through to multi-nationals on all their legal and key strategic needs. This includes advising on (1) best practice to raise capital (advising on all sizes of capital raisings from seed rounds through to IPOs); (2) all mergers and acquisitions (regardless of size and both sell and buy side); (3) best practice for growing a startup globally and (4) designing and implementing best practice ESOPs. Leading authority on venture and growth capital investment in the Asia Pacific. This involves advising venture capital and private equity funds, corporate venture funds, high net worth individuals, repeat entrepreneurs and pension funds on investments they make in disruptive technology companies.Past clients include Accel KKR, Amdocs, ANZ Bank, Blackbird Ventures, Discovery Communications, Electronic Arts, Five Elms Capital, Australia's Future Fund, HomeAway Inc, Level Equity, LVMH Moet Hennessy, Macquarie Capital, Mondelez, OneVentures, Qantas, Qualcomm, Reinventure, SquarePeg Capital, Temasek, Updata Partners, Xero, Webjet, WeWork, Worldline and more than 100 Asia Pacific fast growth tech companies.