Zickie Lim

Partner,Head of VC & Investments

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What can I do for you

Zickie heads up our Funds, Venture Capital and Investments Team. Her clients range from institutional fund managers, investment funds, business angels and angel groups, corporates and family office funds to those seeking such funding, namely entrepreneurs, start ups and spin outs and fast growing technology businesses. The team regularly support their investor clients on their fund creation and fund structuring.

What do others say

"This "customer-focussed" team has a strong reputation for early stage and growth venture capital deals"  (Legal 500)

"Sources praise Zickie Lim's "deep sector knowledge, thorough understanding of specific limitations and ability to move mountains at late notice".   (Chambers)

Supporting your ambitions

A career highlight for Zickie is working with Mercia Technologies Group from its early days as a small fund manager of a university investment fund, to present day, where it is one of the top five most active equity fund managers in the UK with over £500m of assets under management. She advises on their portfolio investments, produces and maintains their template legal documents for investment and provides regular training and updates to their investments team on their documents and legal developments relevant to their industry. Zickie also works with a number of their exciting and innovative portfolio companies.

What else should you know?

Zickie is passionate about working with entrepreneurial technology and life science businesses with disruptive technology and business models.  

She is an expert in the university spin out sector and has worked with more than 100 spin outs from universities throughout the UK, advising all the key stakeholders in these.

Zickie is a member of UKBAA and co-founder of Women4Technology.

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What our clients say about us

“I think Mills & Reeve are a wonderful firm. The support they have provided to us in a really difficult area has been brilliant, collaborative and commercially minded. The team were absolutely wonderful and a joy to work with. Amazing advice and support and a real collaborative effort with us. I can't thank them enough for getting us through some really tough times and doing so with an amazing can-do attitude.”

“They are friendly, fast, always available and always on top of the game. I tend to judge my legal team against the other side's legal team and never doubt Mills & Reeve is the better of the two.”

“All interactions have been very clear. Responses to questions have always been very swift and unambiguous. Our company, and my family, have used various services in Mills & Reeve with the same level of satisfaction.”

“I value the fact that Mills & Reeve are recognised as a good place to work in the UK Best Companies survey. This aligns with the values of our business and means that Mills & Reeve can share what is required to achieve this status with our business.”