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Zickie Lim

Partner,Head of VC & Investments

What can I do for you

Zickie heads up our Venture Capital and Investments Team. Her clients range from institutional VC funds managers, corporate venture funds, family offices and business angels and angel groups. She and her team also advise a range of entrepreneurial and fast growth start-ups, spin-outs and scale ups on their set ups, investment readiness and fundraisings from pre-seed and seed through to late stage Series A, B, C and beyond. Her practice has a strong sector focus on Technology (from IT/telecoms/software to deep tech to cleantech and agtech) and Life Sciences

Supporting your ambitions

A career highlight for Zickie has been working with deeptech pan-European fund manager IQ Capital Partners from its early days as a small fund manager of an early stage regional investment fund, to present day, where it is one of the top most active and well respected deeptech equity fund managers in the UK with over $1bn of assets under management. She advises on their portfolio investments, provides training and updates to their investments team and supports them on their portfolio management matters. The firm also advise IQ Capital Partners on all their fund creation and fund structuring work.

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)

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 one of the UK's leading advisers in the university spin out sector and has worked with more than 250 spin outs from universities throughout the UK, advising all the various key stakeholders in these.

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

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.

As many clients will testify, too many lawyers deliver the required legal expertise but fail to deliver an outstanding client experience. Which is why we always listen to our clients and constantly ask ourselves what we can do to deliver the results you expect.

You expect a close and attentive working relationship, with a lawyer that is responsive and available when you need them. You also want clear, pragmatic and commercial advice tailored to your needs, and transparency and certainty on costs. We completely agree. That’s why every day, through our culture and approach we are committed to delivering the exceptional results and service our clients expect of us.

Related sectors and services

  • Venture capital and equity investments
  • Business start-ups and spin-outs
  • Corporate law
  • Private equity
  • Mergers, acquisitions and disposals
  • Life sciences
  • Technology
  • Investment funds
  • Fintech (Technology)
  • Education
  • Private wealth