Stephen Rosen

Partner

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Stephen Rosen

Partner

srosen@akingump.com

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Stephen is a partner in the London corporate practice and a member of the firm’s technology transactions group. He acts as a trusted adviser to founders, high-growth companies, investors and management teams on corporate transactions. He has particular expertise on company sales and purchases, cross border mergers and acquisitions, and private equity and vc financings across a range of industry sectors.

Stephen has been included in The Legal 500 UK’s Hall of Fame. Prior to joining Akin, Stephen was head of corporate, London, at another U.S. headquartered law firm.

Representative Work
  • Advising digital health business Lumeon and its shareholders on the sale of the company to Health Catalyst, Inc.
  • Advising Primary Capital on its significant investment in Diversity Travel, the specialist travel management company for aid agencies and charities throughout the world.
  • Advising Sam Knows, a broadband monitoring business, and its shareholders on the sale of the company to Cisco.
  • Advising ICG Life Sciences on its investment in the oversubscribed $50 million Series B financing expansion round in Grey Wolf Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company leveraging first-of-its-kind antigen modulation therapies to address the source of immune dysfunction in oncology and autoimmunity.
  • Advising MTIP, the European healthtech growth equity investor, on its investment in Hexarad alongside existing investors. Hexard’s radiology platform provides teleradiology services and software to customers across the UK, Ireland and Saudi Arabia.
  • Advising internationally acclaimed high-performance media agency Brainlabs on its major investment from Falfurrias Capital Partners, a Charlotte-based private equity investment firm.
  • Advised Ori Biotech, a leader in cell and gene therapy manufacturing technology, on its oversubscribed Series B funding round of over $100 million.
  • Advising Pizza Hut Restaurants UK and its senior leadership team, led by CEO Jens Hofma, on the management buyout of the business and in relation to its subsequent company voluntary arrangement.
  • Advising Primary Capital on its significant investment in Sigma Sports, the UK’s leading premium omnichannel retailer of cycling equipment.
  • Advising Syncsort, a global leader in big data and mainframe software, on its acquisition of Cogito, a UK software company that provides energy trading and risk management solutions.
  • Advising Syncsort on its acquisition of Ivanti, a Clearlake Capital-backed company that is a leader in integrating and managing the IT digital workplace.

List includes matters worked on prior to joining Akin.

Education
  • L.P.C., University of Chester, 1993

  • LL.B., University of Leeds, with honors, 1992

Bar Admissions
  • Solicitor, England and Wales

Recognitions
  • Chambers UK: Leading Individual - Corporate/M&A: Mid-market
  • The Legal 500 UK: Private Equity & Hall of Fame
  • The Legal 500 UK: M&A
  • The Legal 500 UK: M&A: Mid-market; Venture Capital; Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
  • Who's Who Legal Life Sciences: Transactional

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