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Tom Jameson

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Tom is a partner in the Corporate/M&A Team at CMS, with a specific focus on M&A, VC and PE in the Media and Technology sectors. He is ranked in both Chambers (Private Equity: Venture Capital Investments, 2025) and Legal 500 (M&A: Upper Mid-Market and Premium deals, GBP 750m+, 2025).

He has advised Venture Capital and Private Equity sponsors, CVCs and management companies across all aspects of the corporate lifecycle; from initial VC / Growth Capital investment rounds, joint ventures and corporate restructures, through to more complex private equity fundraising and, ultimately, company disposals/exits.

Tom’s practice leverages the CMS platform, representing a considerable number of sponsors on their pan-European investments, US PE houses investing in the UK and Europe as well as technology companies expanding globally.

Having acted for both management teams and investors, his 360-degree experience enables him to spot potential issues early, and project manage transactions efficiently and effectively.

Awards & Recognitions

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"Complex private equity investments and growth capital mandates are part of Tom Jameson’s corporate focus."

Legal 500, 2025
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"Tom is a well-regarded corporate partner with notable experience in the technology space. He is recognised for his expertise on venture capital matters and is able to advise on growth capital, venture capital and private equity investments."

Chambers, 2025
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"…a critical driving force in all transaction matters to meet our timeline, and did so with good humour, and a mindboggling work ethic."

Joanne Yuan, VP of Investment, Turn/River Capital
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"Tom is knowledgeable, thorough yet efficient and responsive. My level of confidence in Tom is such that for many issues he is the first point of contact. Tom conveys his views and thoughts precisely and calmly and with an air of quiet confidence".

Michael Galai, Chief Legal Officer, Telit Communications plc

Relevant experience

Investments (VC and PE) – Sponsor / CVC

Turn/River Capital on its investments in SaaS companies Huddle, Acunetix, Netsparker and Redwood.
OMERS Ventures on its investments in the UK, Europe and Asia.
Cavalry Ventures on its investments across Europe.
FNZ on its investments across Europe.
NetEase on its investments across Europe.
Livingbridge on its investments in Efficio, Portman Healthcare and Direct Ferries.
Rocket Internet on the acquisition of Just Eat’s Indian business.
Sun Capital Partners on the acquisition of Strada.
Graphite Capital (and management) on the management buy-out and rollover in The Groucho Club.

Investments (VC and PE) – Management/Company

Entrepreneur First on its EUR 150m Series C Fundraise.
Flagstone on its USD 130m investment from Estancia Capital.
Nature Metrics on its USD 25m Series B fundraise from Just Climate.
ApprovalMax on its fundraise from German PE house Yttrium Partners.
The management team of ETL, the global leader of Satellite Communications, on the investment by CPBE.

M&A

Turn/River Capital on its exits of Huddle, Invicti and Redwood.
Zinc Media (AIM listed) on its acquisitions of Tern TV and The Edge.
FNZ on its acquisitions of New Access, Tapico and JHC.
Dentsu Aegis on its acquisition of a media studio.
Double Negative, Europe's largest provider of visual effects for film, on the multi-million pound sale of the group to Prime Focus World.
32Red plc on its GBP 175m acquisition by Kindred Group plc.

Education

2008 – LPC, Kaplan Law School, London
2006 – LLB, Law, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Practice Areas

Corporate Equity Capital Markets Mergers & Acquisitions Venture Capital

sectors

Private Equity Media Technology

Insights

Global Reach

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