LEVA is a fintech company developing technological solutions to make fundraising easier, faster, and more efficient.
Deal managers can offer co-investment opportunities to their private network of investors leveraging LEVA as a back office tool to manage their deals across the entire fundraising and investing journey.
Leva digitized the whole value chain, allowing deal managers to:
A co-investment is an investment made alongside a deal manager. The investment opportunity is sourced by the deal manager and shared with his co-investors.
Each co-investor independently decides whether he wants to participate in the opportunity or not: co-investments are considered individual investment decisions and are not advised by the deal manager.
Co-investments are passive investments in which co-investors follow a lead: deal terms are often pre-determined and not open to negotiation.
The target company's shares are held by the deal manager on the account of the syndicate. Co-investors are assured of their economical rights in the Partnership Agreement.
No, LEVA designed a partnership structure that allows the deal manager to keep pace with the fast-moving VC industry and set up different deals with a quick, automated, and digital solution. While SPVs are costly and may take weeks to be set up, LEVA’s pooling structure is cost-effective and is instantly set up. Compared to other pooling vehicles, such as SPVs, LEVA’s syndicate has many advantages:
The share ledger shows only one entry per syndicate. The entry is made in the name of the deal manager.
The deal manager signs the investment documents on the account of the syndicate.
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LEVA is a member of the self-regulatory organization (SRO) Verein für Qualitätssicherung von Finanzdienstleistungen (VQF), which is officially recognized, regulated, and supervised by FINMA.
No, the partnership is not incorporated and has no legal personality. The partnership is governed by the Partnership Agreement, the legal agreement defining the rules of the partnership between the investors and the deal manager (it is similar to a shareholders’ agreement).
For Switzerland, LEVA received a cantonal tax ruling, confirming that the partnership is not a taxable subject. Therefore, the tax status of the investors is not changed by being part of the partnership. Merely investing in a partnership does not automatically make a foreign investor a tax subject in Switzerland.
Yes, all investment contracts generated by LEVA are enforceable by Swiss law just like any other contract.
Currently, LEVA supports transactions in Swiss Francs, Euros, British Pounds, and U.S. Dollars. If you would require a different currency, please reach out to support@levamail.com with the details.
Since LEVA is not a member of the syndicate, the partnership is safe, even in the unlikely event that LEVA ceases to exist.
Any legal entity or individual person, who has reached legal maturity. Furthermore, the deal manager shall not be incapacitated, overindebted, insolvent or bankrupt.
From a Swiss perspective, non-qualified investors can participate in deals on LEVA. Nevertheless, it is up to the deal manager to verify if there are any additional restrictions based on the jurisdiction in which the target company or the investors are based.
From a Swiss perspective and provided that the KYC/AML checks were approved, LEVA can onboard anyone except deal managers and investors with a U.S. Person-Status (for details, please consult the IRS website), Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, State of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Myanmar, Korea (North Korea), Palestine State, Pakistan, and Somalia.