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Contact: Scott Preece Partner | Corporate

RWK Goodman is a UK Top 100 law firm providing expert legal support for EIS funds, growing businesses, and other venture and private-equity investors.

With offices spread from Bristol to London, across the M4 corridor, and numbering over 600 people, our dynamic, forward-thinking team of lawyers carefully guide clients through challenges at all stages of their business lifecycle, from S/EIS funding through to exit. Bringing together experts from across the firm, and our external networks, we build a team around you. Carefully selecting the right specialists, with the right skills, to deliver the right results.
Outside of our corporate work for VC funds, PE houses, and scaling businesses, our specialists in commercial contracts, data protection, privacy, intellectual property, real estate, and many other fields, are able to advise on how best to protect investments and scale business.

Find out more about our team and support at rwkgoodman.com/business/corporate

Contact: Boyd Carson Partner

Sapphire does something most fund managers do not - we build the fund around you. If you are an experienced operator who knows your sector inside out but does not want to spend years navigating regulation, compliance, and fund operations, we provide the entire infrastructure to make it happen.


Founded in 2009 and FCA-authorised (FRN: 565716), Sapphire is a multi-award-winning investment manager headquartered in Belfast, with over 25 years of experience across New York private equity and UK venture capital. Over fifteen years, we have built 60+ funds, deploying £300 million across 500+ portfolio companies - spanning deep tech, medtech, sustainability, and robotics.



We operate as a white-label fund incubator. Our partners focus on companies and opportunities. We handle structure, FCA requirements, documentation, investment management, reporting, and operations - quietly, rigorously, long term.


Partners include Fuel Ventures, across eight funds over a decade. As Mark Pearson, Founder: "Sapphire is the cornerstone of our investment operations."


We hold B Corporation certification with a score of 93.1, among the highest-rated businesses globally for social, environmental, and governance performance.


Fifteen years in. Built for the long term.

Contact: Baris Ozaydinli Founder & CEO

Contact: Charlotte Pearl Founder

Contact: Rob Leslie CEO

Contact: Anthony Rose Founder & CEO

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Contact: Peter Steele Retail Operations Director

Seneca Partners is an FCA regulated investment management and corporate advisory services business, dealing with UK based companies in the turnover range of up to £100m per annum. Seneca was formed in 2010 by a senior group of accountants, bankers, stockbrokers and investment management specialists to provide services for high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, companies, charities and trusts.

In early 2014 we acquired Miton Capital Partners, (now Seneca Investment Managers), a traditional, risk rated, upper quartile fund management business. In the same period we also acquired Manchester based corporate finance boutique and fellow EISA member, Acceleris, who have specialised in the provision of growth capital and earlier stage company funding since 2000.

Seneca currently has assets under management in excess of £0.5bn. Investment management activities are provided in a range of asset classes including private equity, secured income, property bridging finance, turnaround & special situations and growth capital in a mix of senior debt, mezzanine finance and equity. We are fund manager to the Seneca EIS Portfolio Service which invests in profitable, growing UK companies. We are also investment adviser to an IHT Portfolio Service via Seneca Secured Lending Ltd, a BPR qualifying company whose trading activity is the provision of short and medium term secured loans.

Contact: Niklas Burawska

Contact: Peter Mayhew

Shakespeare Martineau is a full-service UK law firm with global reach. The firm has a strong private equity and corporate finance practice. We act as solicitors to numerous EIS funds (and companies in receipt of EIS investments) with a particular expertise in EIS fund launches and transaction structuring for EIS investments. Shakespeare Martineau has been voted Best EIS Legal Adviser on several occasions by the EISA. The firm has also been a leader in the VCT market since the mid-90s and is one of the largest providers of legal advice and assistance to the sector. What sets Shakespeare Martineau apart is our uncompromising commitment to know our clients, their business and the regulatory and commercial environment in which they operate and to cultivating long-term relationships with our clients; rather than being a faceless firm that just provides legal advice. Our reputation as a firm that cares and that can be trusted is based on these qualities. Our clients and competitors describe us as having an “approachable, informative and clear style”, being “extremely diligent” and providing “very good, concise (and economical) advice with a good level of commercial thinking”.

Contact: Jonathan Sothcott Director