With a global roster of experienced private equity lawyers, we deliver strategic advice for clients, drawing on deal flow that keeps us at the heart of market-leading trends. 

We advise clients across the full spectrum of investments from growth equity to middle-market and large cap. Our team brings extensive experience representing private equity funds, sponsors and their portfolio companies in all aspects of their business. Our work spans fund formation, mergers and acquisitions, financings, control and minority investments, regulatory compliance investigations and disputes. We also work closely with our finance team who have experience advising on investments in debt securities, derivatives and structured products, strategic liquidity and exit transactions. 

And with deep resource across all major markets in the private capital arena, our clients include many of the world's leading private equity sponsors, investment funds, asset managers and sovereign wealth funds. Moreover, our global team brings deep knowledge of real assets, including real estate, energy and infrastructure, while our sector capabilities mean we have clients across tech, financial services, consumer, industrials and life sciences and can advise across the entire private equity cycle.

Experience

Carlyle and Southern Capital

Carlyle and Southern Capital on the US$1.17 billion sale of IDX listed Indonesian telecom towers company Solusi Tunas Pratama

Blackstone

Blackstone on the non-US elements of its acquisition of a majority stake in Emerson’s Climate Technologies business – a deal valuing the business at US$14 billion

Blackstone

Blackstone on its £140 million strategic investment in Currencies Direct

BlackRock

Advised on the $750 million purchase of the music catalogs of “modern evergreen” artists, with a focus on female and diverse songwriters. The investment is part of a strategic alliance with Influence Media Partners

Sentinel Capital Partners

Advised on the acquisition of Bandon Holdings, headquartered in Austin, Texas, the largest franchisee in the Anytime Fitness family. Anytime Fitness, headquartered in Woodbury, Minnesota, is the largest fitness company in the US and the fastest growing gym franchise in the world

HIG Capital

We advised the private equity house on the acquisitions Tres60 Servicios Audiovisuales, Impursa and Sistemas

Key contacts

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Howard T. Spilko

Partner, Global Head of Private Equity and Chair of Corporate, US, New York

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Ernest S. Wechsler

Managing Partner, Corporate, US, New York

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Peiwen Chen

Partner, Head of Private Capital, Asia, Singapore and Hong Kong

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John Taylor

Partner, London and Nordic Group

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Alberto Frasquet

Socio, Director de mercantil, EMEA, Madrid and Latin America Group