Mayer Brown is a leading international legal adviser to private equity funds, management teams, banks and other financial institutions that provide capital to private equity transactions. Our private equity lawyers work collaboratively across our various offices with other Mayer Brown lawyers who have extensive experience in finance, tax, ERISA, real estate, securitization, environmental law and other practice areas. Mayer Brown helps clients structure innovative, market-sensitive solutions. In the private equity community, we pride ourselves on forging long-term relationships that begin with fund formation and continue throughout a client’s investment and realization periods. We make the effort to understand our private equity clients’ businesses and investment objectives so that we can tailor pragmatic solutions to complex problems.

Mayer Brown’s breadth and depth of experience with private equity transactions in the Americas, Asia and Europe sets the firm apart from most other law firms. We act for all types of private equity funds and their sponsors, regardless of the geographic or industry focus, including infrastructure funds, pledge funds, venture capital funds, funds of funds, secondary funds and debt and mezzanine funds. We also advise lenders and other financial institutions involved in private equity transactions, as well as management teams and portfolio companies. Our practice experience includes a broad array of transactions, including management and leveraged buyouts, public-to-private transactions, private investments in public companies, seed and venture capital investments, follow-on acquisitions and all forms of exit transactions, including auction sales, recapitalizations and IPOs.

Practice at a Glance

• Mayer Brown’s Private Equity practice in France is “Viewed as a leader in terms of both volume and quality of work, the team continues to win instructions even in a climate of drastically reduced deal activity. ‘We have worked with pretty much all of the firms in the market and this is the best one,’ is one client's summary of this successful private equity practice.” – Chambers EU 2011
  

• For the past three years, Mayer Brown ranked in the top 10 in the list of the “most active law firms by number of funds” in the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst survey.
  
  
• In both 2007 and 2009, Mayer Brown was named “Law Firm of the Year” by the French publication Private Equity Magazine for being the most proactive capital investment professionals operating within France and the rest of Europe during the preceding year.
  
  
• “The London practice of this global heavyweight is considered to be an ‘excellent package with impressive strength and depth’ and clients state, ‘I would flag them as the most commercially aware outfit we work with.’” - Chambers UK 2011
  
  
• Named “Hong Kong National Law Firm of the Year” at the Chambers Asia Awards 2010