Angus Miln

Taylor Wessing

Despite a five-partner team raid in 2019 that deprived Taylor Wessing of corporate tech and life sciences heft, it has kept hold of its reputation across Silicon Fen and the start-up scene. This is in no small part due to the firm’s venture capital supremo, Angus Miln.

Miln has navigated the Covid-19 crisis by capturing the juiciest mandate in his competitive space. He was among the key advisers for the UK Government’s Treasury Legal Advisers on its £500m Future Fund, which provided financing to start-ups and scale-ups across the country in the form of a convertible loan, invested directly by the institution.

Miln might be one of the most profitable laterals Taylor Wessing has invested in, having moved in 2016 from Bird & Bird. He recently steered digital bank Monzo through its second fundraising in a matter of months, a combined £125m, dispelling doubts around the firm’s relationship with the client following the departure of prized corporate partner Adrian Rainey to Goodwin.

Miln’s commercial nous helped him become a reliable guardian for a number of companies he has been advising from their early days to their lucrative later developments.