While the world of private equity is constantly evolving – new trends, structures, sectors and participants – certain things remain constant: the search for profitable investment opportunities, the relationships between founders, managers and investors and the need for funding as a catalyst for growth and development.
Our Private Equity lawyers focus on two key areas: specialist founder and management advisory advice and advice to investors of private capital.
The challenges involved in any successful private equity deal heighten the need for this kind of specialist advice. So, whether you are facing an approach or starting a process, you can draw on our private equity lawyers’ wealth of commercial experience, including our market leading employment, tax, benefits and disputes groups. We know how to make connections, generate opportunities and provide guidance that underpins deals.
Besides our core UK practice, there is a distinctly international perspective to our work as private equity lawyers. We are culturally aware and have the logistical know-how to handle multi-jurisdictional deals.
Founders and management teams
For us successful deals are about the people involved in them. That is why our focus is on the advice that we give to founders, entrepreneurs and management teams.
For all of them the line between business and personal is often understandably blurred. They will have their own ambitions, hopes, and fears as the deal moves forward. Our mission is to understand their aspirations and concerns, to guard their interests and to steer the transaction through to a successful conclusion – using our deep market knowledge to secure the best terms possible.
This approach has established us as a market-leading founder and management advisory practice, our private equity lawyers guiding clients through the structuring and negotiation of even the most complex transactions. Our ability to do so is reinforced by a long history advising senior executives on personal tax matters and employment issues, and our deep understanding of private equity from the perspective of founders, entrepreneurs and management teams. The result is an unparalleled service; a private equity law firm that is independent, expert and free from conflict.
Private capital investors
We are entrepreneurs by nature ourselves. We know how investors of private capital think. We understand the issues and the specific concerns that can confront them, particularly in unpredictable times where valuations are uncertain.
Whatever the sector, we are always consistent with our response and our role. We will fiercely guard your interests, make your problems our own and manage transactions in such a way that you can feel confident we will execute them quickly and professionally. We will use our deep market knowledge, technical legal skills and commercial acumen to structure transactions in a manner which aligns to your investment strategy, maximises returns, and manages downside risks.
We advise on all stages of the investment lifecycle from due diligence, acquisition, portfolio management/monitoring to exit.
We never take for granted the privilege that comes when our clients invite us to sit alongside them and entrust us with their most complex matters. The work we do is never just business, it is also personal.