Antti Perli is a partner and one of the most experienced venture capital and emerging technology company attorneys in Estonia. He advises clients in establishing VC and PE funds, making and raising venture capital and private equity investments, founder, employee and management matters, establishing option schemes, IT, IP and corporate matters and other everyday issues.
His recent experience in the field of venture capital and private equity covers more than 100 investment transactions representing both the investors as well as target companies. His area of expertise includes term sheets, cap table matters, equity investments, convertible loans, SAFE instruments, shareholder agreements, conducting due diligence, structuring syndicated investments and relocating company headquarters/parent entities to other countries (flips).
Antti has extensive expertise in structuring and the formation of limited partnership funds, contractual funds, preparation of fund terms, limited partnership agreements and internal procedures, obtaining licenses and registrations and conducting negotiations with fund investors (LPs).
Antti has worked five years as the legal counsel and member of the management board at SmartCap, a management company for state venture capital funds. He has participated in establishing several business accelerators, drafting the Estonian regulation for limited partnership funds and drafting other legislation relating to technology companies, including amendments to the Commercial Code relating to startup companies and amendments to the taxation of share options.
Antti is the main author of Estonian model documents for venture capital investments and startup companies. He is also a member of the board of the Estonian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EstVCA).
Modash raises €11 million
SmartCap invests €5M in Antler Nordic Fund II
BotGuard raises €12 million in Series A funding round
Tera Ventures led the €755k funding round to Flowstep
Skeleton Technologies closed a €108M funding round
Molten Ventures led a $19M funding round to Binalyze
Specialist VC led the €1.7 million seed round to VOOL
Eneco and PKO VC invest in green tech company Fusebox
Jobbatical raises €11,6 million
Superangel announces a new 50mEUR fund
Tagus Capital invests in payment platform Wert
Oktogon Ventures invests in to AEY Metaverse Guild
CybExer Technologies raised €5 million funding
EyeVi raises $2 million in seed investment
eAgronom closes $7.4M investment round
Naspers Foundry invests in Planet 42
Estonian edtech startup Mentornaut raises €200K
Advising AS SmartCap on the establishment of Rohefond
Tera Ventures led the investment round to 10Lines
Superangel led close to €1M funding round to ParcelSea
Healthtech company Viveo raises €2 million
Superangel invests in ROCSYS
Superangel invests in Eziil Production Intelligence
Superangel invests €5 million in Sonarworks
Tera Ventures leads the $1M seed round to Brainbase
Superangel and Spring Capital invest in Upsteam
Mistletoe Singapore invests in Lift99
2002
University of Tartu, Estonia
2022-..
International Bar Association, IBA
2005
Estonian Bar Association
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