Private Equity M&A
Our Private Equity M&A Group is considered the go-to practice for complex, bespoke and firm-defining transactions. With clients ranging from the world’s leading institutional asset managers to prominent middle-market private equity and growth equity firms, we offer comprehensive advice to general partners, limited partners, co-investors and other equity stakeholders, as well as portfolio companies, lenders and financial sponsor groups. The depth and continuity of our relationships across the industry gives us a nuanced understanding of each client’s objectives and allows us to provide seamless, efficient counsel across the investment lifecycle.
Our Private Equity M&A Group is trusted by both well-established and up-and-coming private equity firms and their portfolio companies for its comprehensive commercial advice. We build longstanding relationships with clients of every size and across the spectrum of investment strategies. We leverage this rich and varied experience, including detailed, up-to-date knowledge of private equity terms, to ensure that our clients are positioned to take advantage of domestic and cross-border market opportunities.
We are widely recognized as a global leader in both private equity M&A and strategic investment management transactions. Our combined experience across industries, practice specializations and deal sizes allows us to guide our clients to sound strategic decisions.
“They are smart, balanced, and diligent. I know that I can fully count on them when it comes getting a deal across the line that protects my interests.”
- Chambers USA
Recent
Experience
Recognition
Law360: Private Equity Group of the Year
- Private Equity International: “2025 Transactions Law Firm of the Year (Americas)”
- Our team was recognized as the 2024 “Private Equity Team of the Year” by IFLR1000
- We ranked 4th in Global PE Buyouts and U.S. PE Deals by Mergermarket and Bloomberg in 2024
Recent Engagements
- 3G Capital in its approximately $9 billion acquisition of Skechers U.S.A.
- Apollo Global Management in its $6.3 billion acquisition of International Game Technology’s gaming and digital business IGT Gaming and Everi Holdings, a supplier of technology solutions for casinos
- Funds managed by Ares Management in their $1 billion preferred equity investment in a newly formed railroad subsidiary of FTAI Infrastructure to support FTAI’s acquisition of The Wheeling Corporation, owner of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Company
- Bain Capital in its $1.2 billion strategic joint venture with Warner Music Group to purchase legendary music catalogs across both recorded music and music publishing
- Brookfield in its acquisition of a significant minority stake in Primary Wave Music, an independent publisher of iconic and legendary music, as part of a new strategic partnership valued at over $2 billion, and its additional $1.7 billion capital funding commitment
- Clearlake Capital Group in the $5.3 billion consortium deal to acquire Chelsea Football Club
- Crestview Partners in its acquisition of TenCate Grass Holding B.V., a Netherlands-based vertically integrated manufacturer, distributor and installer of artificial turf solutions, from Royal TenCate, and subsequent sale of its majority stake in TenCate to Leonard Green & Partners
- EQT Infrastructure in its acquisition of Eagle Railcar Services, a railcar repair and maintenance provider, from JM Texas Companies
- General Atlantic in its investment in Anthropic, an AI research company, as part of a $13 billion Series F funding round, which valued the company at $183 billion
- Kohlberg & Co. in its investment and subsequent sale of [solidcore], a fitness studio, to L Catterton
- KPS Capital Partners alongside its portfolio company Eviosys, a Switzerland-based supplier of metal packaging, in the €3.615 billion sale of Eviosys to Sonoco Products Company
- Madison Dearborn Partners and HPS Investment Partners in the $13.4 billion sale of their portfolio company NFP, an insurance company, to Aon plc, a UK-based management consulting company; and in the approximately $2.7 billion acquisition by Madison Dearborn Partners of a significant majority of NFP’s wealth business, including Wealthspire Advisors, Fiducient Advisors, Newport Private Wealth and related platforms, from Aon plc
- Oak Hill Capital and its affiliate MetroNet, a fiber-optic broadband services provider, in its co-investment by KKR and Oak Hill Capital and subsequent sale of Metronet to a joint venture between T-Mobile and KKR
- OceanSound Partners in its acquisition of PAR Excellence, a provider of automated inventory management systems solutions to the healthcare industry, from Northlane Capital Partners
- Roark Capital in its $9.6 billion acquisition of Subway, a fast food restaurant franchise; and in its acquisition of Dave’s Hot Chicken, a restaurant chain, reportedly valued at $1 billion
- Strategic Value Partners in its $1.125 billion acquisition of Revelyst Partners, a collective of maker brands that design and manufacture performance gear and precision technologies and a segment of Vista Outdoor
- TPG in its investment in G&A Partners, a human resources and technology services platform
- Trivest Partners in the combination of its portfolio company, Brothers National, with Pavement Partners Holding, to create Pave America, and subsequent partnership of Pave America with Central States Paving & Concrete, a concrete construction company
- Vitruvian Partners and its portfolio company, EasyPark, a Sweden-based provider of digital parking and mobility solutions, in its acquisition of a Be-Mobile, a Belgium-based smart mobility service provider
