Ali Ramadan

Ali Ramadan is a partner in Goodwin’s Technology and Life Sciences groups.

He has broad corporate experience that spans the entire corporate life cycle. In particular, Ali focuses his practice on angel, seed, venture and growth capital financings and cross-border M&A. His clients include start-ups, high-growth companies and investors (both institutional and corporate) operating in the technology sector including the AI, Climate, Fintech, Foodtech, Healthtech, Proptech, and digital media industries.

Ali is noted as a Leading Individual in Chambers UK 2024 and Legal 500 UK 2024 for Venture Capital & M&A. Clients quote “Ali Ramadan is exceptionally thorough in negotiations with investors, resulting in speedy and very positive results. He is also excellent at communicating complex issues to clients” and that he is “calm in negotiations, very knowledge in the VC space and technically excellent.”

Prior to joining Goodwin, Ali was a partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

Ali’s representative experience includes the following:

Venture Capital Experience:

• Relay, a tech-enabled delivery network, on its $10 million seed financing led by Project A
• Lowercarbon Capital on their $10 million Series A financing of Breathe Battery Technologies, a state-of-the-art control software that uses adaptive algorithms which consider the unique and evolving condition of every battery
• Volt, a global instant payments platform, on its $60 million Series B financing led by IVP
• Connect Earth, an environmental data company, on its $5.6 million seed financing led by Gresham House Ventures
• Creandum on the £8 million seed financing round of Packfleet, the provider of logistics technology used by food platforms such as Deliveroo and Uber Eats
• Ai Build, a fast-growing London based SaaS company, on its $8.5 million Series A financing led by Superseed, ACT Venture Partners, Atlas Ventures and Seedcamp
• Borderless, a workplace migration platform, on its £2.5 million seed financing led by Backed VC
• Supercritical, a carbon removal marketplace, on its $13 million Series A financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners
• Gensyn, a London based blockchain start-up, on the completion of its $43 million Series A financing led by a16z crypto
• Plain, a London based start-up developing an API-first tool to help companies provide streamlines support for customer service teams, on its $6 million seed financing led by Index Ventures and Connect Ventures
• Octopus Ventures and BGF on their investment in a £40 million Series C financing round in Orbex
• Octopus Ventures on various financings including it investments in HelloSelf, Orca Computing, Unlikely AI, Whirli, ThoughtRiver, Vitesse PSP and Katkin
• Index Ventures on various financings including investments into Sourceful, Rooser, incident.io and its investment in Dream Games as part of a $255 million Series C financing
• Better Dairy on completing a £1.6 million seed financing round led by Happiness Capital and on its $22 million Series A Equity financing led by RedAlpine and Vorwerk
• Hoxton Farms, a cultivated fat company, on completing a £2.7 million seed financing led by Founders Fund and on its $22 million Series A financing led by Collaborative Fund and Fine Structure Ventures
• Cleo on its $44 Million Series B financing round led by EQT Ventures and on its $70 million Series C financing led by Sofina
• LabGenius, a protein engineering company, on its $15 million Series A extension round led by Atomico
• Spoon Guru, a food tech company providing tailored nutritional expertise, on its Series A financing led by W23
• Omnipresent Group, a tech-enabled platform that handles all of the complexity of international employment for clients, on its $2 million seed financing led by Playfair Capital and Episode 1 and on its $120 million Series B financing led by Kinnevik and Tencent
• SenSat, which creates digital representations of real-world locations, or “digital twins,” on its $10 million series A financing led by Tencent* and on its $20.5 million Series B financing led by National Grid Partners
• Mashroom, a unique end to end property letting platform, on completing a £4 million convertible loan note financing
• Navenio the hospital workforce AI platform it £9 million Series A financing led by QBN Capital
• ING Ventures on its $5 million investment in the series B round of Eigen Technologies, the global provider of natural language processing technology
• Hoxton Ventures on completing a £5 million investment into host kitchen tech provider Kbox Global
• Fidelity International Strategic Ventures on leading a $10 million Series A financing in the compliance technology and data analytics company SteelEye
• Smedvig Capital on completing a $10 million Series A investment in restaurant intelligence platform Yumpingo
• Skew, a cryptocurrency real-time data analytics company, on a $2 million seed financing led by FirstMinute Capital* and its £4 million Series A financing led by Octopus Ventures
• Kitch, building delivery-first virtual kitchens, on a €1 million pre-seed financing round led by Seedcamp and Mustard Seed MAZE
• Eight Roads Ventures on funding rounds in Moneybox, Mention Me, Fuse Universal, OTA Insight and Decibel Insight*
• Santander InnoVentures on its participation in the series B funding round of MarketInvoice*
• Smedvig Capital on funding rounds in Profile Pensions, Captify Media, the marketing technology business Infinity, the recruitment site Adzuna and in the adtech startup Spirable *
• QBE Insurance on its participation in the funding rounds of the artificial intelligence start-ups Cytora and Jupiter*
• Just Eat on its US$64 million series C funding round led by Vitruvian Partners and its corporate venture investment in Flypay*
• Farfetch.com, the high-end online fashion retailer, on its US$86 million series E funding led by DST Global and US$66 million series D funding round led by Vitruvian Partners*

M&A Experience:

• Otta, a job search platform that aims to help you find a new job that suits your preferences, goals and personality, on its sale to Welcome to the Jungle
• Profile Pensions, a UK digital pension adviser, on its proposed acquisition by Moneyfarm
• Captify, a leading search intelligence platform, on its sale to SFW Capital Partners
• Skew Ltd, on the sale of its entire issued share capital to Coinbase Global Inc for a total consideration satisfied in cash and Coinbase stock
• Rimilia Holdings Ltd and its shareholders on the sale of 100% of its issued share capital to Blackline Systems Inc for a total consideration of $120 million
• Quill Content on its sale to the Webedia Group*
• GoCardless on its acquisition of the Directli platform*
• Smedvig Capital on the sale of the Picture Production Company, an international digital marketing agency, to SDI Media Group*
• My Home Move, the technology driven conveyancing firm, on the acquisition of Advantage Property Lawyers*
• bwin.Party Digital Entertainment, an online gambling company, on a US$35 million disposal of the World Poker Tour business to Ourgame International Holdings*
• Shareholders of Albion Brand, a PR agency, on sale of a majority stake to the US-based marketing services group KBS (owned by MDC Partners)*
• Lorillard, Inc., a US tobacco company on its £60 million acquisition of Skycig, a leading UK electronic cigarette brand*
• Shareholders of Toptable on a US$55 million disposal to OpenTable*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Ali is a member of the Law Society of England and Wales.

Ali is regularly recognized by industry publications. Rankings and accolades include:

• Ranked in Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment, Chambers UK 2024
• Leading Individual: Venture Capital, Legal 500 UK 2024
• Ranked in Private Equity: Venture Capital investment, Chambers UK 2023
• Leading Individual: Venture Capital, Legal 500 UK 2023
• Ranked in Private Equity: Venture Capital investment, Chambers UK 2022
• Ranked in Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment, Chambers UK 2021
• Next Generation Partner: Venture Capital, Legal 500 UK 2021
• Ranked in Private Equity: Venture Capital Investments, Chambers UK 2020 (One source attests: “Ali is without doubt a trusted adviser and takes it in his stride. He knows which points to focus on, and we appreciate his pragmatic approach.”)
• Up and Coming in Private Equity: Venture Capital Investment, Chambers UK 2018 and 2019
• Recommended Individual: Venture Capital, Legal 500 UK 2018 and 2019
• Recommended Individual: Fintech, Legal 500 UK 2018 and 2019
• Recommended Individual: M&A Lower Mid-Market, Legal 500 UK 2018
• Young Legal Innovator of the Year, Financial Times, 2016

Ali's recent article publications include:

• Author, “BIM Technology – Driving Change in the Real Estate Sector,” Goodwin’s PropTech Pulse, February 2020