People
Joshua Little
Biography
Josh is a Tech M&A and emerging growth lawyer with a wealth of experience across a wide range of corporate transactions, including international M&A, joint ventures, equity finance, growth and venture capital fundraising and investments, and strategic commercial partnerships.
His practice encompasses the full life cycle of high-growth companies, advising companies and their investors from early-stage seed and Series A fundraising rounds to $1 billion+ exits. Josh focuses on the Tech sector and works with high-growth companies and their investors throughout EMEA and the United States on some of their most complex and innovative projects.
Josh is an active contributor to the firm’s pro bono programme and has been publicly recognised for his contribution winning the Lawworks Junior Division Pro Bono Award for advising Stonewall on ‘Turing’s Law’ in the UK. Josh regularly advises not-for-profit organisations on a pro bono basis on governance aspects of English charity law and registration with the Charity Commission.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- Emerging growth
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
Sectors
- Technology
- Sports
Selected experience
- Etsy on its USD1.2 billion sale of Depop to Ebay.
- Oakley Capital on its USD1 billion sale of vLex to Clio.
- Hitachi Digital on the acquisition of a software business from a global technology company.
- Zebra Technologies Corporation on its acquisition of Photoneo, a leading developer and manufacturer of 3D machine vision solutions.
- FD Technologies plc on the GBP230 million sale of its First Derivative business to EPAM Systems, Inc.
- FD Technologies plc on its GBP120 million return of capital to shareholders by way of tender offer.
- CUBE, a leading provider of RegTech services, on its strategic partnership with Hg.
- A global professional services firm on its strategic partnership with a global telecoms company to commercialize its shared services operations.
- EQT Infrastructure VI fund on a proposed EUR3.4 billion joint venture to acquire Wind Tre’s fixed and mobile telecoms network business in Italy.
- Checkout.com on its USD1 billion Series D fundraise making it one of the world's most valuable growth companies and various corporate matters.
Education
- MA (Cantab), Modern & Medieval Languages, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, 2012
- LLB, University of Law, London, 2014
Admissions
- Solicitor, England and Wales, 2016
Languages
- Spanish