Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Automotive Venture Capital Investors
The automotive industry is being transformed by digitization, increasing automation, innovation, energy and battery efficiency and new business models, including ride-sharing schemes, electric and autonomous vehicles and connected cars.
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Multinational businesses are now collaborating with cutting-edge start-ups to change the shape of the industry. Automotive corporations are using captive funds focused on disrupting the marketplace. Venture capital funds and large institutional investors are also making considerable investments in the industry.
We have a strong track record in advising corporate strategic and financial venture capital investors in the automotive industry as well as emerging automotive companies throughout the complete "venture capital lifecycle."
Our regulatory expertise in this industry is second to none. Our lawyers also have been involved in nearly every major legislative and regulatory initiative involving motor vehicle safety in the past two decades, and have a comprehensive understanding of how these changes will impact corollary industries. We have supported automotive companies in this industry's largest transactions, including extensive intellectual property licensing transactions. We advise numerous clients in the automotive industry in achieving their innovation needs to support vehicle safety technologies, and have advised various automotive companies with regard to privacy-related concerns.
Our capabilities at a glance
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The whole team is super smart. They are all really easy to work with and then know our business inside out. They come to us proactively with issues and are incredibly responsive.
Chambers & Partners, UK Guide, 2025
An intellectually brilliant and commercially astute public law team. One of the very best in the city.
Chambers & Partners UK 2025
Hogan Lovells has a high capability in solving complex issues that involve both legal and technical perspectives.
Chambers & Partners, Germany, 2025
The lawyers are just experts. They are there when you need them and happy to entertain all my questions. They understand the wider context and the politics and sensitivities of it.
Chambers & Partners, UK 2025
Key contacts
Representative experience
FlixMobility on all financing rounds, including its US$650m Series G, valued at US$3bn.
Ford Motor Company invested $500m in Rivian Automotive in April 2019 and also participated in Rivian’s $1.3bn stock offering in December 2019 along with T. Rowe Price, Black Rock and Amazon.
Jaguar Land Rover on its US$15m investment in CloudCar as a strategic partner.
Kingdom Holding Company on its investments in Careem and Lyft.
NEoT Green Mobility (NGM), a joint venture between NEoT Capital, EDF NB, CDC, Mitsubishi Corporation and Forsee Power, on its creation, development, and financing. NGM is the first investment vehicle entirely dedicated to electric mobility.
TRATON on its strategic equity investment in TuSimple, a U.S.- and China-based developer of autonomous long-haul trucks and related technology-supported freight network.
Awards and recognitions
Band 1 for Transportation: Road (Automotive)
Chambers USA
2021
Tier 1 for Transport: Rail & Road – Litigation & Regulation
The Legal 500 US
2021
Transportation Group of the Year
Law360
2019-2020
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Hogan Lovells advises FlixMobility on 650 Million Dollar financing round
08 June 2021
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Hogan Lovells advises Affirma Capital in Series B funding of Singapore-based micromobility startup Beam
22 April 2022
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Hogan Lovells advises Affirma Capital in Series B funding of Singapore-based micromobility startup Beam
22 April 2022
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Hogan Lovells advises FlixMobility on 650 Million Dollar financing round
08 June 2021