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John Finnemore

Partner

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

John Finnemore is a partner in the CMS Corporate Team. He is a specialist venture capital, private equity and mergers and acquisitions lawyer.  He has a particular focus on advising clients in the tech sector and taking those clients through all funding rounds to eventual exit.

John trained with a US firm and has worked for international law firms throughout his career.  He has substantial experience in venture capital matters and is ranked in both the Chambers and Legal 500 guides for this work in that space.

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John is ranked in Chambers and Partners for "Private Equity – Venture Capital" and is described as "excellent"

Relevant experience

  • Lyst Ltd, a fashion and e-commerce business on all funding rounds from Seed to Series E.
  • Conversocial Limited, a website analytics business, on all funding rounds and its exit.
  • Photospire Limited, a video and photo editing platform, on all funding rounds and its exit.
  • Creative Benefit Solutions Limited, a pensions tech platform on all funding rounds and its exit.
  • GoCardless Ltd, a leading payments business, on all funding rounds from Seed to Series F.
  • A family office on all UK investment rounds undertaken by the family.
  • Incident.io on all funding rounds to date.
  • Advice on the sale of a software business providing SAAS to sports teams.
  • Acting for companies on over 1,000 angel, Seed and Series A funding rounds in the past 15 years.
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Education

  • 2003 – LPC, College of Law, Birmingham
  • 2002 – LL.B (Hons), University of Warwick, Coventry
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13/03/2023
Government consultation on regulation of cryptoassets deals with issuance...
On 1st February 2023, His Majesty’s Treasury (“HMT”) published a com­pre­hens­ive con­sulta­tion pa­per (“Con­sulta­tion Paper”) that sets out the UK Government’s (“Gov­ern­ment”) intention to...
13/03/2023
Update to Silicon Valley Bank’s current position and what it means
We have been continuing to monitor the situation at Silicon Valley Bank since our Client Alert issued yesterday afternoon. Like the rest of the sector, we were relieved at this morning’s announcement...
12/03/2023
Silicon Valley Bank’s current position and what to do about it
Please refer to our latest publication Update to Silicon Valley Bank's current position and what it means for the most up-to-date guidance. The team here at CMS has been saddened by the collapse of the...
30/10/2022
Digital Assets and Web3 Hub
At CMS we are truly interested in everything crypto, blockchain and metaverse. We enjoy cooperating with industry bodies and academics, have our voice heard in government thinking groups and tasks forces, attend and organise events and regularly publish legal briefings, research reports and opinion pieces.   This page contains some of our most recent publications. If any of the articles have your particular interest, feel free to reach out to its authors for a deeper conversation.
29/09/2022
CMS closes series of high-profile battery storage deals
International law firm CMS has closed five significant battery storage deals in recent months, reinforcing the firm’s market-leading position in this space.  These in­clude: Ad­vising Zenobē on two...
04/07/2022
CMS advises Field on £77m financing for portfolio of battery storage assets
International law firm CMS has advised Field, a leading battery stor­age de­vel­op­ment company, on its £47m financing from investment firm Triple Point Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Company (TEEC)...
18/05/2022
Tokenised Funds Series: Paper 4 – Disputes considerations
This publication was first published by The IA in collaboration with CMS, in September 2021
11/05/2022
Tokenised Funds Series: Paper 3 - Prospectus Disclosures
This publication was first published by The IA in collaboration with CMS, in June 2021
04/05/2022
Tokenised Funds Series: Paper 2 - Regulatory Considerations
This publication was first published by The IA in collaboration with CMS, in March 2021
27/04/2022
Tokenised Funds Series: Paper 1 - What, why and how
This publication was first published by The IA in collaboration with CMS, in November 2020
07/07/2021
CMS advises Moneyhub on latest funding round
International law firm CMS has provided guidance to longstanding fintech client Moneyhub, the market-leading Open Finance data, intelligence and payments platform, on its latest funding round which was...
07/06/2021
CMS advises Lyst on $85m fundraising
International law firm CMS has advised UK scale-up and global fashion e-commerce platform Lyst Ltd on its $85 million fun­drais­ing. In­vestors in the funding round included certain funds managed by Fidelity...