Our Private Equity team acts for Investors, Management Teams and Founders.
Welcome to our multi award-winning Private Equity team. Please click on the headings below to find out more about how we deliver impact for investors, management teams and founders.
- Investors
FROM OPPORTUNITY TO EXIT
We help over 40 prominent private equity investors – including 9 of the top 10 most prolific mid-cap houses – minimise their risk whilst maximising returns. Using all our experience, grit and imagination, we help sponsors build and execute their deal pipeline, support investments throughout their growth, and achieve the best possible exit.
In the last five years, we've advised on over 400 buyouts, investments, follow-on acquisitions and exits.
Challenges we help investors address include:
- Unearthing new opportunities – via direct deal origination, market coverage calls and divestment trackers
- Execution of buy-side mandates with speed and certainty when processes are competitive
- Advice through the life of an investment to support value enhancement strategies
- Achieving better exits – helping our clients present their investments in the best possible light to maximise value on sale or IPO
Praised as an ‘absolutely brilliant team working at the very top end of their game’
Legal 500, 2023
Key contact
Mike Hinchliffe
Partner, Head of Private Equity
+44 (0)20 7880 5742
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View Profile >- Management teams
WIN: WIN, NOT SO SO
We support management teams through the complexities of any private equity transaction, negotiating terms opposite most of the big names in the market. With more than 400 private equity deals under our belt in the last 5 years, we help management teams secure the best possible management incentive package for themselves whilst protecting the ongoing interests of the company.
In the past year, we successfully completed over 25 management advisory mandates.
Challenges we help management teams address include:
- Balancing the right incentives package for them as individuals with the right deal for the growth of the business
- Protections to avoid unfair treatment on departure from the business or when things go wrong
- Helping managers choose the right investor for them - using our extensive market experience and knowledge of different bidders
Discover more about our management advisory experience >
Key contact
Mike Hinchliffe
Partner, Head of Private Equity
+44 (0)20 7880 5742
Email Mike >
View Profile >- Founders
MADE-TO-MEASURE ADVICE FOR FOUNDERS
Taking on private equity investment is a pivotal moment for any growth company. We offer straight talking advice, informed by our unrivalled experience on both sides of the table, to help founders choose the right investor as well as secure the right terms.
We have supported over 70 growth companies in last five years.
Recent challenges we’ve helped founders address include:
- Preparing the business for investor scrutiny, to be "PE ready"
- Comparing different investment structures and the different types of private equity investors
- Negotiating a deal on the right terms, and with the right partner
Key contact
Mike Hinchliffe
Partner, Head of Private Equity
+44 (0)20 7880 5742
Email Mike >
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In the last 3 years
Representative clients
- 3i
- Accel KKR
- Cairngorm Capital
- Carlyle Group
- CBPE
- CGE Partners
- ECI
- Equistone
- H2 Equity Partners
- Inflexion
- LDC
- Livingbridge
- Lone Star Funds
- NorthEdge
- Phoenix
- Riverside
- Synova
- Terra Firma
- Volpi
- Waterland
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