Job Description
Our global Private Equity group lies at the heart of the Firm's business strategy and, in London, the group sits at the hub of our Corporate practice. It offers unparalleled opportunities to work on the most high-profile and market-leading mandates. The group advises an impressive range of clients, covering a wide variety of financial sponsors (including many leading international private equity houses, infrastructure and other investment funds, banks and other financial institutions), their portfolio companies and management teams. The group is supported by the Firm's integrated network of offices (providing the largest geographic coverage of any single law firm) as well as expertise in other key complementary practice areas (including acquisition finance, capital markets, funds and regulatory) and industry sectors to offer clients unrivalled strength and depth of resource.
Our global team is best known for our capacity to lead on PE transactions of any nature and anywhere in the world. Having been leaders in PE since its inception 40 years ago and with over 700 private equity lawyers across our offices, the diversity of our clients and product areas, the geographies we work in, and our wider industry knowledge gives us a global perspective on private equity trends and issues.
We continue to be recognised by leading industry bodies for our market leading work with some of the the largest global PE houses choosing to repeatedly work with us.
Over the past 12 months, our London private equity team has advised the following PE clients on multiple deals: Ardian, Carlyle, Cinven, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, CVC, Davidson Kempner, Elliott, EQT, KKR, ONEX, PAI Partners, Partners Group, Permira, Rivean Capital, TPG.
Recent Awards include:
- Chambers 2023 – Infrastructure (UK)
- Legal 500 2023 – Infrastructure (UK)
- Chambers 2023 – Private Equity (UK)
Below is a sample list of our notable PE Deals:
- Partners Group on its transaction to increase its equity stake in Swiss watchmaker Breitling
- CD&R portfolio company WSH on their acquisition of Notes Coffee
- Blackstone on the merger of its portfolio company The Office Group (TOG) with Fora
- a PE bidder on its proposed acquisition of Fedrigoni, the Italian paper manufacturer, from Bain Capital
- Onex on its acquisition of Independent Clinical Services from TowerBrook Capital
- CVC and Cinven on their acquisition of the NewDay Group for £1.1 billion
Qualifications
Lawyer
