Private Equity

We have extensive experience and expertise in every aspect of private equity work. Our versatile lawyers advise on the full range of transactions from venture capital investments to the largest and most complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions and from the initial investment all the way through to exit.

Our expertise includes acting for private equity houses, lenders at all levels of the capital structure, companies raising finance and management teams.

We were recently awarded:

• Legal Adviser of the Year (The Financial Times and Mergermarket Group European M&A Awards, 2010) for our work advising:
  • Resolution on the acquisition of AXA's UK Life Business
  • Global Infrastructure Partners in relation to the acquisition of London Gatwick Airport
• Private Equity Deal of the Year (IFLR Europe Awards 2010) for our work on the restructuring of Countrywide plc