Cyrus Fung is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Corporate Department.

Cyrus advises clients on a broad range of corporate matters, including private equity transactions, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture, and general corporate matters.

Cyrus’ experience includes advising:

  • Wayve, the leader in embodied AI for autonomous driving, on its:
    • US$1.5 billion funding to deploy its global autonomy platform
    • US$85 million employee secondary share sale on the London Stock Exchange’s Private Securities Market
  • Synthesia, the AI video platform, on its US$200 million Series E funding round led by Google Ventures, with participation from Evantic, Hedosophia, NVentures (Nvidia’s venture capital arm), Accel, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), PSP Growth, Air Street Capital, FirstMark, and MMC Ventures
  • Accel, Factorial Funds, and Founders Fund on the US$220 million Series B funding round of Fractile, a UK-based chip designer building inference hardware to power the next generation of AI
  • Index Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners on the US$15 million Series A funding round of Apron Payments, an intuitive payment management platform that consolidates invoices and payment flows
  • Hoxton Ventures and Basis Set Ventures on the US$30 million seed funding round of Cusp AI, an applied AI company building a platform for next-generation materials
  • Apollo on its carve-out acquisition of the colocation data center business from STACK Infrastructure from funds managed by Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure Advisors LLC
  • Astorg on its reinvestment into Acturis, a multi-tenant software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform providing administration, distribution, and underwriting capabilities to insurers and insurance brokers
  • Neo4j, the world’s leading graph intelligence platform, on the acquisition of GraphAware, an intelligence analysis software company for government agencies
  • Shift4 on its acquisition of Global Blue, the leading specialty payments and technology platform enabling tax-free shopping, dynamic currency conversion, and payments solutions to the world’s largest retail brands
  • A leading US fund on its significant minority investment in a Formula One racing team
  • ComplyAdvantage on its acquisition of Golden Recursion Inc, a San Francisco-based innovator automating the construction of one of the world’s largest knowledge graphs
  • Maverick Silicon on its Series B investment in Infinitesima, a UK-based pioneer of advanced process control solutions for the semiconductor industry
  • Moment, a pan-African fintech, on its US$22 million Series A funding round led by AlphaCode Venture Partners, with participation from General Catalyst, MultiChoice, and Canal+
  • Messium, a UK AgriTech innovator that deploys hyperspectral satellites and AI-driven crop growth models, on its £3.3 million seed funding round
  • Hunza G, the sustainable swimwear brand, on its management buy out
  • Future Positive as the lead investor on the £15 million Series A funding round of Hello Vet, a UK veterinary practice
  • United Ventures on the US$6 million seed funding round of Volume Payments

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • PCLL, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2020
  • LL.B., The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2019

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Chinese (Cantonese)
  • Chinese (Mandarin)