Our private equity transactional practice regularly represents the most active financial sponsors, including hedge and private equity funds and their portfolio companies, in a wide variety of transactions.
Our experience includes public and private company mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, distressed and bankruptcy acquisitions, consortium deals, proxy contests, PIPEs transactions, venture investments, and bridge and mezzanine fundings. Our clients and representations span a broad spectrum of industries and market sectors and include both domestic and international transactions. Where our clients hold substantial positions, we often act as counsel to the portfolio company, particularly for M&A transactions, bank financings and capital markets transactions, including high-yield offerings and initial public offerings. We pride ourselves on being part of a client’s team, oriented towards integrating the client's business objectives with legal issues and focused on providing sensible and straightforward advice and solutions.
Our depth of expertise in both the organization of private equity funds and the representation of those funds in the investment process provides our clients with legal counsel uniquely attuned to achieving their goals. Our private equity transactional lawyers draw from extensive experience in representing private equity firms in all aspects of their business, including structuring and negotiating acquisition transactions, structuring and negotiating acquisition and corporate financings, structuring management compensation programs, providing transactional and general corporate advice to portfolio companies, and structuring and negotiating dispositions of investments.
Our transactional practice is part of the firm’s 200-attorney corporate department, but we utilize the expertise of attorneys from across the spectrum of legal disciplines in the firm, including tax, environmental, employee benefits and labor law, intellectual property and real estate.