Clifford Chance

We have decades of experience in the private equity industry since the team's inception in the 1980s. Our diversity of clients, geographies, industry knowledge and products affords us a global perspective on developing private equity trends and issues.

With over 700 private equity lawyers across our offices we support our clients throughout the world's major financial centres and emerging markets.

We advise on the private equity life cycle from fund formation, capital deployment, M&A, public to privates, all types of debt and equity financing, growth and restructurings to exits. Central to this is our integrated team of global antitrust, regulatory, investigations and disputes experts.

The diversity of our financial investor client base including private equity houses, multi asset managers, portfolio companies, infrastructure, real estate, sovereign wealth and pension funds enables us to provide expert advice on market terms across all investment structures including secondaries and co-investments.