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

Atlantic Street Capital

Advised on the agreement to sell Advancing Eyecare, a leading provider of ophthalmic instruments, to Cornell Capital

Paine Schwartz Partners

Advising on the acquisition of Kynetec, an agricultural and market research company

Stone Point Capital

Acted on the sale of its portfolio company Finxera Holdings Inc. to Priority Technology Holdings, a leading payments technology company

Sentinel Capital Partners

Acted on the agreement to sell Pet Supplies Plus, a leading retail chain and franchisor of pet supplies and services, to Franchise Group in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately US$700 million

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