Private capital

Freshfields brings expertise across our global offices to seamlessly advise private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on their most complex domestic and cross-border transactions. The team’s expertise includes the spectrum of M&A transactions, such as buyouts, carve-outs, spin-outs, M&A, consortium deals and joint ventures, minority investments (as lead or co-investor), PIPEs, asset management M&A, significant rollover transactions, continuation vehicle transactions and partial exits, platform building and roll-up strategies, and restructuring transactions and distressed investments.

Drawing on our market-leading global experience, we bring together strengths in private equity M&A, private funds & secondaries, leveraged finance and private credit to deliver seamless and responsive support and execution excellence at every stage of a fund’s or investment’s lifecycle. We represent sophisticated global financial sponsors, leading middle market PE buyout firms, sovereign wealth and pension funds, insurance companies, and various asset managers, as well as portfolio operating companies and other acquisitive businesses. Our work covers healthcare/life sciences, financial services, insurance and fintech, industrials, infrastructure and energy transition, and consumer and business services.