BLN Partners
The BLN is delighted to partner with a range of world-class organisations:
BDO LLP
Whether your business is a start-up or a multi-national, we can help you achieve your goals. BDO LLP has over 235 partners and 3,150 staff in the UK & 14 offices across the country. BDO International is the world’s 5th largest accountancy network with more than 1,000 offices in over 110 countries with 44,000 employees worldwide.
Gary Hanson — Partner
Tel: +44 1223 535 050
Email: gary.hanson@bdo.co.uk
Twitter: @BDO_Cambridge
Brown Rudnick
Brown Rudnick advises international businesses and those entering the US and UK commercial and financial markets.
Our experience includes establishing foreign offices, organizing subsidiaries, minimizing international taxes, leveraging and protecting intellectual property, and negotiating strategic joint ventures and licenses. We advise investors, as well as businesses seeking public and private equity and debt capital. We also structure and coordinate international corporate transactions, and assist with multinational venture capital financings, global public offerings, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
In addition to our London office, we serve clients from our US offices in New York, Washington DC, Boston and across New England.
Contact
Mark Dorff — Partner
Tel: +44 20 7851 6005
Email: mdorff@brownrudnick.com
Calibre One
Calibre One is an international search firm and we believe securing world class business leaders is fundamental to the success of any organisation, large or small.
We help some of the world’s most successful companies – from iconic giants to VC backed market pioneers – to build relationships with the world’s most talented people.
Contact
James Brocket — Managing Partner
Tel: +44 20 7070 3000
Email: james.brocket@calibreone.com
Deloitte
The Deloitte Technology Group in Cambridge serves a client base comprising of start ups through to listed multinational businesses. The focus of the group on technology based businesses enables us to provide a service designed specifically for the needs of your business.
Experienced staff within the Technology Group will work with you to build your business. Services can be selected from our extensive portfolio. As your business evolves we will adapt our service to meet your changing requirements. This service is provided by a dedicated multi-disciplinary team of specialists with extensive experience of working with technology companies.
Our service approach recognises that the needs of growing companies will change as they develop. Our portfolio of services will provide the level of support you require throughout the life cycle of your business.
We would be pleased to meet with you to gain an understanding of how Deloitte can contribute to your success.
Contact
Tel:+44 (0) 1223 460222
Farrer & Co
Farrer & Co is a thriving, forward-thinking, London law firm with more than 300 years’ history. We are a firm of 330 people, including 70 partners and 110 other lawyers. Our Media Group’s advise national and regional newspaper and magazine publishing groups and a wide variety of academic journals publishers, literary estates and authors. We provide advice on issues as diverse as rights acquisition and clearance, corporate acquisitions / disposals, supply chain and book distribution contracts, IT and outsourcing contracts, electronic publishing, mobile content and other syndication deals, intellectual property right infringements and strategy, and freelance issues. Clients include The Economist, Bauer, Emap, Incisive Media, Dr Foster and The Wilmington Group.
Telephone: +44 20 7917 7548
Contact: RichardLane, rtl@farrer.co.uk
Gill Jennings & Every
GJE is a London-based firm of European Patent Attorneys and European Trade Mark Attorneys. The firm is consistently in the top tier of Recommended Firms in the Legal 500, Managing Intellectual Property and Chambers UK annual surveys of the IP profession.
GJE acts for a large number of start-ups and spin-out companies, particularly in the Cambridge area, and has guided many of these from an early stage to eventual trade sale or IPO. Through their experience with these companies and their strong connections within the private equity investment community, GJE has developed significant expertise in advising clients on IP portfolio management.
Contact
Peter Finnie — Partner, European Patent Attorney
Tel: +44 207 3771 377
Mobile: +44 7740 634 113
Email: pjf@gje.co.uk
Twitter: MaverickPJF
Intel Capital
Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, makes equity investments in innovative technology start-ups and companies worldwide.
Intel Capital invests in a broad range of companies offering hardware, software, and services targeting enterprise, home, mobility, health, consumer Internet, semiconductor manufacturing and cleantech.
Since 1991, Intel Capital has invested more than US9bn in over 1,000 companies in 46 countries. In that timeframe, 174 portfolio companies have gone public on various exchanges around the world and 231 were acquired or participated in a merger.
For more information on Intel Capital and its differentiated advantages, visit www.intelcapital.com
Contact
Tel: +44 207 292 8782
Email: europe-capital@intel.com
Kleinwort Benson
A trusted wealth adviser for over 200 years, most of our clients have been with us for over two decades.
Understanding your needs and aspirations is important to us and crucial in the creation of our extensive range of bespoke solutions spanning wealth management, for private individuals, to fund administration services, for corporate clients.
We can offer you the best of both worlds; the flexibility of a small local bank with the reassurance of a multinational, secured through our close relationship with parent company Commerzbank and our network of offices across the UK and the Channel Islands.
We are delighted to have been voted Best Private Bank 2008 at the Investors Chronicle / Financial Times Wealth Management Awards by the People who matter most to us; our clients.
Contact
Derek Wright — Head of Distribution Initiatives
Tel: +44 20 3207 7190
Email: derek.wright@kbpb.co.uk
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is a leading global investment bank. In the UK, it has an unrivalled track record of IPO’s and a substantial corporate broking business it has a long-standing reputation for the quality of its Investment research and share of UK equity trading.
Contact: Stewart_mcgregor@ml.com
NESTA
NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Our mission is to transform the UK’s capacity for innovation. We invest in early stage companies, inform innovation policy and encourage a culture that helps innovation to flourish.
NESTA Investments combines investment with non-financial support to help companies turn their innovative ideas into commercial successes. We encourage other investors to generate a commercial return by replicating our investment models.
Contact
George Whitehead — Business Development Director
Tel: +44 20 7438 2533
Email: george.whitehead@nesta.org.uk
Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing is a leading international law firm. We provide a full range of legal services for clients from our network of offices in Europe, China and Dubai.
We are particularly noted for our expertise in acting for the venture capital community and entrepreneurs and have a long history of acting for clients in the technology sector. Our top-ranked VC lawyers advise both investors and companies on all aspects of their investments.
The quality of our VC and private equity practices was recognised in January 2009 when we were nominated “Law Firm of the Year” by the European Venture Capital Journal.
Contact
David Mardle — Partner
Tel: +44 1223 446 425
Email: d.mardle@taylorwessing.com
