Our Private Equity Group is considered the go-to practice for complex, bespoke and firm-defining transactions. With clients ranging from the world’s leading institutional asset managers to prominent middle-market private equity and growth equity firms, we offer comprehensive advice to general partners, limited partners, co-investors and other equity stakeholders, as well as portfolio companies, lenders and financial sponsor groups. The depth and continuity of our relationships across the industry gives us a nuanced understanding of each client’s objectives and allows us to provide seamless, efficient counsel across the investment lifecycle.
Our Practice
Our Private Equity Group is trusted by both well-established and up-and-coming private equity firms and their portfolio companies for its comprehensive commercial advice. We build longstanding relationships with clients of every size and across the spectrum of investment strategies. We leverage this rich and varied experience, including detailed, up-to-date knowledge of private equity terms, to ensure that our clients are positioned to take advantage of market opportunities, whether related to a fundraising, deal or financing.
We are widely recognized as a market leader in both private equity M&A and strategic investment management transactions. Our combined experience across industries, practice specializations and deal sizes allows us to guide our clients to sound strategic decisions.
Our practice works on the full range of M&A transactions for private equity firms and their portfolio companies, including:
- buyouts and consortium deals
- joint ventures
- recapitalizations & restructurings
- investments and divestitures
- portfolio company follow-ons
- sales & spin-offs
- minority investments
- take-privates
- cross-border transactions
- special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) transactions
- private investment in public equity (PIPE) transactions