The global nature of Linklaters’ private equity practice is a reflection of the globalisation of private equity houses.
The team’s experience includes transactions across the major jurisdictions of Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia.. Private equity houses, investors, funds, banks and financial institutions rely on Linklaters’ market leading global experts. Linklaters’ private equity lawyers advise clients at all stages, from establishing the fund and making investments, to ongoing portfolio assistance including restructuring advice, to exiting from those investments.
Clients benefit from market-leading funds, corporate M&A, restructuring and finance experts and their understanding of both the fund-raising, fund structuring, buyout and restructuring market. Linklaters helps clients structure the best investment methods for them, from helping sponsors position themselves to ensure they are the lead equity sponsor when looking at M&A situations to clubbing together to compete for distressed assets
Clients can also rely on the proven track record of lawyers from Linklaters’ pensions, IP and tax groups to support their private equity transactions. Sector experience covers the full spectrum of industry, from telecoms to utilities, leisure and retail.
Recent private equity transactions include advising:
- Oaktree on the acquisition of Countrywide via a debt restructuring
- the debtor and sponsor on the restructuring of Italian luxury yacht manufacturer Ferretti
- the consortium led by Montagu Private Equity and Global Infrastructure Partners on £1.7bn Public to Private of Biffa Plc - one of the largest UK P2P
- Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity on its €800m secondary buy out of Euromedic International Holdings from Warburg Pincus - the largest CEE buyout of the year, and winner of Emerging Europe Deal of the Year at the European Private Equity Awards, 2008
- Acting CapVest on the sale €1.8bn sale of FoodVest - the European Large Private Equity Deal of the Year (Real Deals)
- TPG Capital on the aborted £124m strategic investment into Bradford & Bingley - one of the most high profile private equity-backed PIPE transactions
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