Private Capital
One global team. Seamless delivery. Commercial advice from private capital lawyers across the full investment lifecycle, from fund formation to exit.
Sponsors, investors, portfolio companies and management teams need advice that helps them move quickly. Our private capital lawyers bring together expertise across jurisdictions, practices and sectors to deliver integrated advice at every stage.
How we can help
Whether you’re raising capital, deploying it, protecting value or realising returns we provide commercial, practical end-to-end advice across the entire investment cycle. We quickly bring together the right product and sector specialists to provide clear answers and decisive guidance to put you in the strongest position. We have more than 140 private capital partners and 500 lawyers across 20 offices in the UK, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the US. We regularly work with the world’s leading financial sponsors, investors, portfolio companies and their management teams.
Our private capital legal services
Our global, multidisciplinary teams work seamlessly across jurisdictions to provide market leading fund structuring and formation, fundraising and investor negotiations expertise with top of the market capability in M&A, leveraged and acquisition finance, capital markets, portfolio management, taxation and regulation, capital solutions and restructuring and exit strategies.
We combine technical expertise with deep specialist sector knowledge and asset insights. We work with your teams to identify value drivers, anticipate regulatory and structuring challenges, and navigate complexity in highly regulated and operationally intensive sectors, so you can manage execution risk and move decisively.
More information on our offering:
We advise all sponsor clients active in the private capital, private wealth and mutual funds space, including those active in private equity (large cap, buyout, venture and growth), private credit (direct lending, mezzanine and special situations), infrastructure and natural resources, real estate, venture capital and liquid funds (UCITS). Our private capital lawyers advise across a broad range of products, including closed-ended and open-ended funds, evergreen and semi-liquid funds, which may be designed as flagship funds, bespoke solutions, fund of funds, access funds, co-investments and private wealth products.
We assist GPs on their fundraising activities, advising them in negotiations with potential investors, side letter negotiations, MFN processes and AML/KYC, sanctions and related questions. Our lawyers also give guidance on distribution/placement networks, and on different ways or tools to approach investor groups in various jurisdictions.
