Emerging Companies

Creating new products, improving existing concepts and venturing into new markets. Emerging and growth-stage companies face a challenging landscape, but also one that offers the opportunity to disrupt the way we live, work and interact.

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You have developed an innovative idea into a profitable, fast growth business model. What next? We offer unique guidance for emerging and growth-stage companies to help them navigate through every stage of fundraising to further support their growth and strategy.

Our industry focus across fintech, consumer, tech, life sciences and automotive enables us to identify, and even anticipate regulatory changes, market dynamics, and trends that will redefine the shape of an industry. We leverage this industry insight to help emerging and growth-stage companies shape the future.

We strive to build strategic and valuable connections among investors, entrepreneurs, and companies, with a view to building long term, mutually beneficial relationships. We are proud of our role in helping entrepreneurs turn an idea into a business reality.

Our capabilities at a glance

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The whole team is super smart. They are all really easy to work with and then know our business inside out. They come to us proactively with issues and are incredibly responsive.

Chambers & Partners, UK Guide, 2025

An intellectually brilliant and commercially astute public law team. One of the very best in the city.

Chambers & Partners UK 2025

Hogan Lovells has a high capability in solving complex issues that involve both legal and technical perspectives.

Chambers & Partners, Germany, 2025

The lawyers are just experts. They are there when you need them and happy to entertain all my questions. They understand the wider context and the politics and sensitivities of it.

Chambers & Partners, UK 2025

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UK Parliamentary Affairs

Challenge unlawful government decisions and protect your rights with our market-leading judicial review team.

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Turn your legislative challenges into opportunities with our market-leading legal and policy team who will help you help you craft, influence and interpret legislation.

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Key contacts

Matthieu Grollemund

Partner

Matthieu Grollemund

Partner

Paris

Peter Huber

Partner

Peter Huber

Partner

Munich

Mahvesh A. Qureshi

Partner

Mahvesh A. Qureshi

Partner

Washington, D.C.

Simon Grimshaw

Partner

Simon Grimshaw

Partner

Birmingham, London

Representative experience

We advised CommerzVentures GmbH, Acton GmbH & Co. Heureka II KG, Capnamic United Venture Fund I GmbH & Co. KG on a venture capital investment in Plan Forward.

We advised Springlane GmbH on its Series C financing round with TriPos, KfW, HV Ventures, Tengelmann, and others.

We advised ABS Capital Partners on its US$20.5m investment in a premier sustainable products brand, Bambeco.

We advised Five Prime Therapeutics on a US$84.3m public offering of common stock.

Centogene on its €25m Series A financing.

Claranet on its £90m private equity investment by Tikehau Capital and Partners Group.

Evinced on its US$17m Series A funding round co-led by M12, Microsoft's venture fund, BGV, Capital One Ventures, and seed investor Engineering Capital.

FlixMobility on its Series F funding round. This transaction is one of the largest equity financing rounds ever completed in Germany.

Globacap on the issuance of ordinary shares onto the public blockchain, the first ever issuance of shares onto the blockchain by a UK company.

Monzo on its £20m crowdfunding round as part of its £105m Series E raise.

Personio GmbH on its US$125m Series D and US$75m Series C financing rounds to fund the Munich start-up’s international expansion.

Zopa on its £60m pre-IPO fundraising.

The Exploration Company, a Franco-German spacecraft manufacturer, on its US$160m Series B financing round to fund continued development of its Nyx spacecraft, Europe’s first reusable space capsule.

Verkor, a French industrial company, on its record financing of more than €2bn to launch a high-performance battery gigafactory in France.

Supponor, a leading live media virtual advertising specialist, on its fundraising and its sale to Bruin Capital-backed TGI Sport, a global leader in sports technology and media rights.

FlixMobility on all financing rounds, including its US$650m Series G, valued at US$3bn.

Flowdesk on its US$50m Series B round led by Cathay Innovation alongside Cathay Ledger Fund, Eurazeo, ISAI, Speedinvest, Bpifrance and Ripple.

Navigate change with our latest insights

News

New technical standard for Natural Gas Pipelines: NOM-020-ASEA-2024 officially published

03 September 2025

Insights and Analysis

Expansion of Hong Kong’s anti-bribery legislation – The Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Amendment of Schedules 1 and 2) Order 2025 brings four new institutions within scope of the POBO.

02 July 2025

News

U.S. House of Representatives passes proposal to prohibit enforcement of state AI laws for 10 years

22 May 2025

News

Reforms to the Mexican competition law

28 April 2025

You have developed an innovative idea into a profitable, fast growth business model. What next? We offer unique guidance for emerging and growth-stage companies to help them navigate through every stage of fundraising to further support their growth and strategy.

Our capabilities at a glance

Judicial review wins

Ex-government policy advisors

Pieces of legislation changed

Hear from our clients and industry leaders

The whole team is super smart. They are all really easy to work with and then know our business inside out. They come to us proactively with issues and are incredibly responsive.

An intellectually brilliant and commercially astute public law team. One of the very best in the city.

Hogan Lovells has a high capability in solving complex issues that involve both legal and technical perspectives.

The lawyers are just experts. They are there when you need them and happy to entertain all my questions. They understand the wider context and the politics and sensitivities of it.

Explore our capabilites

Judicial Review

Legislation

UK Parliamentary Affairs

Key contacts

Representative experience

Navigate change with our latest insights

Freedom of Information requests – is disclosure really in the public interest?

A win for online speech in Patterson v. Meta

Reforms to the Mexican competition law – Cofece and IFT extinction

Expansion of Hong Kong’s anti-bribery legislation – The Prevention of Bribery Ordinance (Amendment of Schedules 1 and 2) Order 2025 brings four new institutions within scope of the POBO.

U.S. House of Representatives passes proposal to prohibit enforcement of state AI laws for 10 years

Reforms to the Mexican competition law

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