
London
Bringing the same dedication to client service for which Paul, Weiss is known globally, our team of more than 200 lawyers in London delivers premier legal services for their most complex and significant cross-border transactions in the United Kingdom, Europe and beyond. The team’s focus is on representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies across the full breadth of transactional practices and across the entire fund life cycle, including in M&A, finance, capital markets, tax, antitrust, intellectual property, restructuring, regulatory, funds and other important areas.
The London office’s M&A team handles the most sophisticated public and private cross-border M&A and corporate transactions, and the finance team has been at the forefront of innovations in financing structures for the past two decades, executing many of the market’s largest and most complex cross-border financings. The London office also offers comprehensive cross-border U.S. capital markets advice, whether on high-yield debt offerings, IPOs, liability management transactions or other complex securities issuances. Leading antitrust, UK tax, restructuring, regulatory, funds and intellectual property and technology transfer advisors, among others, round out our complete transactional offering in London.
Our team in London comprises English- and U.S.-qualified lawyers whose legal expertise is underpinned by a broad spectrum of cultures, languages, and experiences. The team has achieved groundbreaking results for clients and is widely recognized for their expertise and innovations in corporate and transactional advisory work, including by Chambers UK, The Legal 500 and IFLR1000.
In addition to the advantages afforded to all our clients by our London team’s expertise, UK and European market knowledge, we seamlessly leverage our entire global platform, drawing on teams in Brussels as well as New York, Washington, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Wilmington, and in Hong Kong, Toronto and Tokyo for our clients’ most important cross-border transactions.
Paul, Weiss’s London office is located in the heart of West End, just a stone’s throw from the offices of many private equity and asset management clients, and features bright, modern spaces that foster interaction and collaboration.
20 Air Street
London W1B 5AN
United Kingdom
- Tel: +44-20-7367-1600
- Fax: +44-20-7367-1650
Recent
Experience
Recognition
Financial Times: Winner of Innovative Lawyers Europe Award
- In 2024, Paul, Weiss was named "International Law Firm of the Year" by The Lawyer
- Paul, Weiss earned over a dozen top-10 UK and European M&A league table rankings
- Roger Johnson and Neel Sachdev named to Private Equity News' 2024 “Most Influential in Private Equity” list