Howard Watt, a venture capital lawyer with over 15 years’ experience in providing corporate and commercial advice to funds, investors, entrepreneurs, start-ups and high growth companies, has joined Fladgate.
Watt advises both funds and investee companies with deal experience that ranges from early/seed stage investments and spanning the full life cycle of Series A-D, through to M&A and IPO exits for venture-backed companies.
He is recognised in the latest Legal 500 and Chambers guides as a leading individual in his field. Watt also spent six years as in-house counsel to a major European growth venture fund and so has significant and hands-on experience from the both the fund and client side of transactions which act as a real differentiator for clients in this area.
Watt advises angels, founders, companies and many of the leading early stage and growth venture capital funds operating in Europe. His transaction history covers a wide variety of sectors including fintech, gaming, health tech, SaaS, ad-tech, AI, consumer tech,…
