Aaron Archer

Aaron is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice in London. Aaron provides a pragmatic, hands-on approach to helping high-growth often disruptive companies and investors in these companies navigate through a company’s life cycle from initial structuring through to exit and beyond, including all the various types and stages of financings, M&A, and general corporate governance and advisory in between.

Aaron is a member of the BVCA model documents committee, a member of Diversity VC’s advisory board, and a presenter and mentor at various accelerator and business programs. Aaron was also one of the four lawyer task-force selected by the UK government to devise and implement the Future Fund, the government backed initiative to provide funding for UK start-ups during the COVID pandemic.

Aaron represents companies and investors across a broad range of industries, and has acted on some of the UK’s most high-profile investments including those into Deliveroo, Monzo, Cazoo, Bloom & Wild, Improbable, Hopin, Synthesia, and Multiverse. Aaron’s clients and other investor representations include:

• 20VC
• Accel
• Air Street Capital
• Andreessen Horowitz
• Atomico
• Cledara
• Codat
• Felix Capital
• Gay Times
• General Catalyst
• Glorify
• Inkey List
• Lapse
• Lightspeed
• LocalGlobe
• Mention Me
• Manual
• Molten
• Nauta Capital
• Northzone
• Nourished
• Peppy
• ai
• Redsift
• Runa
• Shieldpay
• Sofinnova
• Stable
• VC
• Synthesia
• Unmind
• Wagestream