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Private Equity Law
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History
and background Willkie Farr & Gallagher is an elite international law firm of over 1,200 lawyers located in 16 offices in six countries. Willkie’s London office provides English and US legal advice to UK, US and international market-leading public and private companies, investors and financial services institutions. Willkie’s core areas of practice include: antitrust and competition, asset management, capital markets, competition litigation, investigations and enforcement, corporate insurance, finance, financial services regulatory, international arbitration, litigation, private equity / M&A, restructuring and tax.
Our organisation’s areas of expertise, particularly in relation to inward investors to the UK and EU
Willkie’s private equity practice in London is one of the market-leading teams and a destination firm for both large-cap and upper middle-market UK and European deals including public takeovers. The team represents UK,European
and US sponsors and their portfolio companies across all areas
of private equity and provides a platform that serves all clients’
needs. We are regularly recognized for our strength in the Private
Equity space by leading directories Chambers Global, Chambers
UK, Chambers Europe, The Legal 500 UK and IFLR1000. Recent representative
experience includes advising: • Platinum Equity on the
acquisition of Sunrise Medical a world leader in advanced assistive
mobility solutions, from Nordic Capital • Searchlight Capital Partners
as owner of Flowbird in connection with the sale of Flowbird and
in connection with re-investment of significant capital into EasyPark
Group. EasyPark is a global parking tech company based in Stockholm,
and is one of the global leaders in mobile paid parking • Davidson Kempner on its
joint acquisition with Nature Infrastructure Capital of the solar
and storage project development platform of Greencells Group • CapVest Partners in its
acquisition of Recochem • Freshstream on its investment
in MCR Group, a rapidly growing outsourced services company based
in Ireland • Levine Leichtman Capital
Partners on its investment in Improve International Group, a leader
in veterinary postgraduate training and education • Searchlight Capital Partners in connection with a £500 million preferred equity consortium investment in RSK Group Limited, a leading provider of environmental consulting and engineering solutions • FTV Capital on a recommended cash acquisition of AIM - listed Windward Ltd, a leading maritime AI company, to be effected by way of a merger under the Israeli Companies Law
Case study examples of the sort of work that we have successfully carried out for clients
We advised Insight Partners on
the sale of its majority stake in AMCS, a global leader in performance
and sustainability software to resource-intensive industries,
to EQT Private Equity. EQT Private Equity invested from EQT X,
its flagship private equity fund, and EQT Future, its impact-driven,
longer-hold fund. This is a representative example
of a highly complex growth equity deal that we typically handle
- where we advise all the way through the investment cycle from
growth investment, follow on financing, and finally on a big cap
private equity exit - which plays into our mid-market and upper-mid
market private equity strengths, alongside our deep knowledge
of the growth space. By aligning with sponsor goals from the very
start, we acted as a true strategic partner, anticipating challenges,
delivering pragmatic solutions, and ensuring that Insight Partners’
long-term investment strategy was fully realized through a seamless
and successful exit.
Bio details of partners / directors within our organisation Gavin
Gordon Gavin Gordon is Chair of the European Private Equity Practice Group and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. His practice is focused on representing sponsors and other investors on European buy outs, take privates and growth deals. He also represents multiple clients in relation to special situation and distressed M&A opportunities. Gavin has advised many of the leading European and U.S. sponsors on transactions in the UK and almost every European jurisdiction. Claire
McDaid Claire McDaid is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group in London. She focuses on private equity and corporate M&A transactions, advising principally financial sponsors, family offices, corporates and strategic investors on a variety of cross-border investment transactions. Claire has worked across a broad range of sectors worldwide, including business services, industrial, financial services, renewable energy and technology.
David
Arnold David Arnold is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group in London. His practice is focused on representing financial investors and corporate clients across Europe and the US on mergers and acquisitions, divestments, restructurings, capital raisings and general corporate law matters.
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