James Went

Corporate lawyer specialising in advising life sciences and technology companies. His transactional work includes acquisitions and disposals, often with an international element; university spin-outs; venture capital funding transactions; joint ventures; corporate restructuring and re-organisations. He works with companies at all stages of their life cycle and many clients are spin-outs from the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and other universities and technology transfer organisations, who he works with on a long-term basis. · Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

EnglandCorporate / M&A, Venture Capital

Email Call

About

Partner at Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP, a corporate lawyer specialising in advising life sciences and technology companies on acquisitions and disposals (often with a cross-border element), university spin-outs, venture capital funding, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations. Works with companies at all stages of their life cycle and acts for many spin-outs from the University of Oxford, Imperial College London and other technology transfer organisations.

Practice areas

Corporate / M&AVenture CapitalLife SciencesTechnologyCorporate RestructuringStartups & Spin-Outs

Office

England

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP · Corporate lawyer specialising in advising life sciences and technology companies. His transactional work includes acquisitions and disposals, often with an international element; university spin-outs; venture capital funding transactions; joint ventures; corporate restructuring and re-organisations. He works with companies at all stages of their life cycle and many clients are spin-outs from the University of Oxford, Imperial College London, and other universities and technology transfer organisations, who he works with on a long-term basis.

England

Expertise

Life sciences companiesTechnology companiesUniversity spin-outsVenture capital funding transactionsCross-border corporate transactionsJoint ventures

Education

Sullivan Upper School
Lincoln College, Oxford — BA (Hons) Jurisprudence, First Class (1994–1997)
Christ's College, Cambridge — LLM (2000–2001)

Admissions

Qualified (England), 2000