Our experience covers every type of investment and divestment activity – from start-up and early stage investments, MBIs, MBOs, BIMBOs and IBOs to secondary buy-outs and exits by trade sale.

Our transaction teams have experience in the competition, tax (including VCT aspects), pensions, employee benefits, intellectual property and regulatory issues involved in private equity deals. Our banking team regularly act for lenders and borrowers and is ideally placed to advise on all funding aspects of a private equity deal.

If you are a private equity investor you benefit from our wealth of knowledge of market norms and evolving market practice. If you are a manager, our knowledge will guide you through the deal process, identifying and advising you in relation to the key provisions in the investment documentation and the most important of management issues.

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