Antitrust & Trade
We advise major clients from all key sectors on complex antitrust matters worldwide. We secure clearances in challenging merger control proceedings and represent clients in multi-jurisdictional cartel, market investigation, enforcement, and dominance cases. Our team includes specialists on FDI and FSR matters, as well as CFIUS and trade experts in the US. We work closely with other GPGs to help clients manage cross-border investment issues. We also design compliance programmes advising clients on how to navigate antitrust and regulatory risk. Several team members bring insight from an enforcer's perspective, having previously served as regulators at bodies such as the EU Commission, the US DOJ and FTC, UK CMA, ACCC in Australia and MOFCOM in China.
Capital Markets
We advise on the full range of capital markets transactions, including equity and debt offerings, high yield, liability management exercises and financial regulatory matters. Our experience includes IPOs, follow on offerings, bond issuances and securitisations across global markets. We act for issuers, underwriters, sponsors, financial institutions and sovereigns, supporting clients on complex transactions and evolving regulatory requirements with clarity, technical rigour and efficiency.
Corporate Transactions & Advisory
We advise many of the world's leading companies on public and private M&A, disposals, demergers, joint ventures, restructurings and [high value commercial contracts] with a particular focus on complex, cross-border transactions. Our team works closely with antitrust specialists on merger control matters and collaborates with experts across finance, capital markets, litigation, tax, pensions, employment and real estate to deliver integrated advice. We combine international deal execution skills with deep local market knowledge and sector-focused expertise. Our practice also covers corporate governance, regulatory compliance, intellectual property and technology advisory, providing clients with comprehensive support across all aspects of corporate activity.
Debt Finance
We advise on the full range of debt finance matters, including leveraged finance, asset finance, real estate and infrastructure finance, fund finance, corporate lending, syndicated facilities and private credit. We act for banks, financial institutions, corporates, sponsors, funds and direct lenders on acquisition financings, refinancings, liability management and other complex financing arrangements. Our lawyers advise on both lender and borrower side mandates and have extensive experience structuring and executing domestic and cross border transactions, including financings backed by complex asset and infrastructure portfolios, providing clear and pragmatic advice on sophisticated finance matters.
Disputes
We advise on complex commercial litigation, including class actions, administrative proceedings, commercial and investment arbitrations, as well as high-profile white-collar defense, government and internal investigations, and criminal and regulatory proceedings. We are a global team with experience in state, national, federal and international courts, arbitral tribunals, and enforcement agencies throughout the world. Our clients are financial institutions, multinational private and state-owned entities, private equity firms, funds, and prominent individuals who turn to us to mitigate and manage business risk across virtually all sectors. We work seamlessly with our market-leading transactional and advisory colleagues to help clients realize their commercial objectives, whether through a win at trial or hearing, dismissal, or settlement.
Funds & Asset Management
We advise the world's leading fund sponsors and asset managers on the formation of a broad range of products including closed-ended and open-ended funds, evergreen platforms, permanent capital vehicles, quasi-retail products, and bespoke managed account and co-investment arrangements. We cover all asset classes, including private equity, private credit, infrastructure and real estate. While primarily a sponsor-side practice, we also advise blue chip institutional investors on fund commitments, joint ventures and similar arrangements. Our work spans primary fundraising and secondary transactions, including LP portfolio sales and acquisitions, GP-led continuation vehicles and fund re-organisations. We work closely with our funds-tax and funds-regulatory teams across key jurisdictions to provide a one-stop service.
Private Equity
We advise many of the world's leading private equity houses, multi-asset managers, infrastructure, real estate, sovereign wealth and pension funds. Our work covers the full investment lifecycle, including capital deployment, M&A, public to privates, debt and equity financings/refinancings, growth and structured investments, co-investments, syndications, restructurings, asset management and exits, whether by private sale, IPO, continuation vehicle or secondaries. We collaborate closely with our global antitrust, regulatory, financing, capital markets, incentives, investigations and disputes experts. We also work particularly closely with our funds colleagues in order to deliver the full private equity offering to clients. Our experience advising 11 of the 12 largest global private equity houses enables us to provide expert guidance on market terms across all investment structures and geographies.
Project Development and Finance
We advise on all aspects of project development and finance across the energy, infrastructure, natural resources and transport sectors. Our work includes advising on project and financing documentation, public private partnerships, multi source financings, risk allocation and regulatory matters. We act for sponsors, lenders, governments, contractors and investors on greenfield and brownfield projects worldwide, including projects supporting the energy transition. Working with colleagues in construction, environmental, tax, regulatory and disputes practices, we provide integrated advice from project development through financing and delivery, helping clients manage complexity and deliver projects across multiple jurisdictions.
Real Estate
We advise the industry's leading players on the full range of real estate-related transactions across all asset classes, including operational real estate.
Our clients span sovereign wealth funds, global asset managers, private equity houses, institutional developers, lenders, and corporates - from first-time market entrants to the world's most active real estate platforms.
Forward-thinking and commercial in our approach, we combine global reach with local depth to deliver the most complex transactions, wherever they take place.
Our market-leading real estate team, which includes construction, environmental and regulatory specialists, works seamlessly alongside the firm's tax, finance, funds, and capital market practices to provide fully integrated advice at every stage of a transaction.
Restructuring and Insolvency
We advise on all aspects of restructuring and insolvency, including out of court restructurings, liquidity and liability management, distressed debt, formal insolvency proceedings, cross border restructurings, distressed M&A and enforcement. We act for corporates, financial institutions, sponsors, creditors and public sector bodies on complex domestic and international matters. Our team provides strategic, pragmatic advice throughout the restructuring process, from contingency planning and value preservation to implementation and dispute resolution.
Structured Finance
We advise on a broad range of structured finance transactions, including structured products, derivatives, CLOs and securitisations across asset classes and jurisdictions. We regularly advise on market first and market shaping securitisations, with experience across traditional and esoteric asset classes, including consumer and trade receivables, auto, RMBS and CMBS. Our work covers public and private issuances, repackagings, synthetic and cash structures, warehouses and risk transfer transactions. We act for arrangers, issuers, collateral managers, investors and servicers on complex structures, supporting clients to navigate regulatory requirements and execute transactions in evolving securitisation markets.
Tax, Pensions, Employment & Incentives
We advise clients through our four integrated sub-groups – Tax, Pensions, Employment & Incentives – delivering coordinated, cross border support on transactional, advisory and contentious matters. Our lawyers combine deep technical expertise with strong commercial and sector insight, embedding tax, workforce, remuneration and pensions considerations within the wider legal and regulatory framework. Working closely with corporate, finance, restructuring and disputes teams across jurisdictions, we provide pragmatic, solution focused advice on complex, multi jurisdictional and high risk issues. We act for a diverse international client base, including private capital sponsors, asset managers, multinational groups, financial institutions, trustees and insurers.
