Private Equity
The private equity landscape is increasingly dynamic, with financial sponsors pursuing more complex acquisitions amid an ever-tougher regulatory environment.
We advise the world’s leading sponsors - as well as portfolio companies and other finance providers - across the investment lifecycle, from fund formation to disposals.
- Our multidisciplinary team of private equity specialists comprises lawyers with cutting-edge M&A, equity, loans, high-yield, securitisation and investment funds experience.
- Their capabilities are complimented by our market-leading tax, antitrust, foreign investment, financial regulation, intellectual property, pensions, employment and real estate practices.
- This, coupled with our deep sector knowledge and unrivalled reach across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific makes us the firm of choice for the most challenging deals wherever they arise.
We deliver the highest quality commercial advice on everything from growth stakes to co-investments, minority interests, consortium deals, leveraged buyouts, portfolio restructurings and secondary transactions.
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News and insights
Publications: 03 April 2024
Chief Information Security Officers and cyber whistleblowing: considerations for PE firms
Companies large and small are grappling with an ever-evolving cyber risk landscape. However, two recent cases against companies and their Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), bring to the fore…
Publications: 13 March 2024
Abuse of dominance enforcement declines as new forums emerge
The level of fines imposed in abuse of dominance cases continued to decrease across the world in 2023.
Publications: 05 March 2024
Private Markets Global Trends 2024
Private markets have shown remarkable resilience and innovation in the face of unprecedented challenges and opportunities in the past few years. From the pandemic to the digital transformation, from…
Publications: 28 February 2024
Private equity deals under increasing antitrust scrutiny
Traditionally, private equity firms were seen as benign investors from an antitrust perspective. This is changing. In the past 12 months, PE-funded acquisitions have faced progressively more rigorous…
Recognition
Draws from a high-calibre team of transactional experts, with particular skills in complex cross-border investment work, complemented by leading finance and capital markets teams.
Chambers UK 2020
A hard-working team of pragmatic advisers that delivers seamlessly across multiple jurisdictions.
Legal 500 UK 2019