lee bagshaw
specialties
startups, capital raising, m&a, southeast asia
about lee
Lee is an experienced capital raising and m&a lawyer, admitted in both NZ and England & Wales. Prior to joining Kindrik Partners, he worked in London and Singapore for a leading international law firm, heading up their corporate technology practice across Southeast Asia.
Lee advises tech startups and venture capital funds in NZ and across Southeast Asia, increasingly focussing on VC funded financing transactions and cross border tech m&a. He also works with NZ based companies taking their products and services to Southeast Asia. Lee is known for adopting a practical approach with companies and investors and closing deals quickly.
His recent work includes:
- advising various global VC funds and tech startups on series A to C financing transactions across Southeast Asia
- acting for a US listed company on the acquisition of a NZ software company
- advising on the acquisitions of the Indonesian, Malaysian and Singapore businesses of a US tech giant
latest from the blogs
Betterdata seed round
We’re happy to have advised Singapore-based synthetic data company Betterdata on an oversubscribed seed round of $1.65 million, led by Investible. The company was founded in 2021 by Dr. Uzair Javaid and Kevin Yee and allows clients to share data faster and more securely in compliance with stricter data privacy regulations being introduced around the world. Betterdata uses generative AI to convert real data into synthetic data that looks, feels, and behaves like real datasets. These synthetic datasets retain the structure and correlations of the original data while eliminating the privacy and security concerns that come with holding and sharing…
kindrik partners advises Green Li-ion on USD20.5m funding round
Kindrik Partners advised Singapore-based startup Green Li-ion on its recent USD20.5 million pre-B funding round. The round was led by TRIREC, followed by investors including Banpu NEXT and Equinor Ventures. Green Li-ion was founded in 2020 by Leon Farrant and Reza Katal to develop technology capable of recycling lithium-ion batteries and is now a leading developer of battery recycling technology. The company has developed modular units capable of recycling spent batteries into cathode material that can be used in the production of new batteries. Each unit is able to process 4-6 metric tons of spent batteries per day, the equivalent…
