Venture Capital

HWLE’s market leading venture capital team has experience in all aspects of the investment process from due diligence, term sheet negotiation, seed funding, security terms for preference shares, warrants, convertible notes, employee share plans and eventually through to exit for trade sales, dual tracks and IPOs.

Our team is led nationally by one of the leading Venture Capital and Technology M&A lawyers in Australia, Jason Maletic, and act for some of the most high-profile venture capital funds in Australia, early-stage and late stage issuers, consortiums and high net worth investors with experience in fintech, proptech, climate tech, deep tech and financial services venture capital transactions.

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Venture Capital

Our experience

  • ASX listed institutional investors Advising ASX listed institutional investor as the lead investor in the Series A round by a leading Australian proptech company.
  • Early-stage issuers Advising a range of early-stage issuers on multiple pre-seed, seed, Series A and Series B fundraises including negotiation of complex convertible instruments and flip ups to the US.
  • A deep tech company Acting for a prominent deep tech company on all of its capital raisings, including Seed, Convertible Notes, Series A and Series B, involving major institutional investors various leading venture capital funds.
  • A major Australian fintech Advising a major Australian fintech on multiple capital raisings including its $25 million Series A and $32.5 million Series B, involving key investors Mastercard, Westpac and various venture capital funds.
  • Australian ESVCLP fund Advising on a leading Australian ESVCLP fund over multiple investments in Australian companies.
  • A SaaS Business Acting for a communications platform-based SaaS business, from assisting it raise seed capital, then several expansion funding rounds, pre-IPO funding and finally through to its listing on the Australian Stock Exchange.
  • Early stage issuers Acting for a range of early stage issuers from start-up phase  through to seed and expansion funding rounds, pre-IPO capital raise and ongoing support towards becoming a listed entity.