Buyout, Law Firms and Leveraged Buyouts

Banks ramp up leveraged buyouts as interest rates fall

Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Investment banks, which faced significant losses on risky merger and acquisition (M&A) loans due to a spike in global interest rates, are now aggressively returning to the leveraged buyout (LBO) market — one of the most profitable sectors in finance, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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Goodwin adds two Partners to UK private equity practice

Private Equity Wire

APRIL 29, 2024

Global law firm Goodwin has appointed Ian Keefe and George Weavil as Partners within the firm’s private equity practice in its London office, which covers M&A, private investment funds and debt finance.

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Paul Hastings adds PE Partner to Boston office

Private Equity Wire

APRIL 24, 2024

Global law firm Paul Hastings has added Alexander Temel as a Partner and Global Co-Chair of its private equity practice. In his new role, Temel will serve as a founding member of the firm’s new Boston office.

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McDermott adds PE partner to London transactions practice

Private Equity Wire

APRIL 4, 2024

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery has appointed Fatema Orjela as a partner in the firm’s transactions practice group in London. Ordeal’s practice focuses on private equity transactions and related advisory matters. Orjela provides strategic counsel to European and US private equity sponsors.

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Jackson Walker adds Partner to corporate & securities practice

Private Equity Wire

AUGUST 27, 2024

Law firm Jackson Walker has hired Patrick H Rose, IV as Partner in the corporate & securities practice group in its Dallas office. Rose most recently served as Partner at US law firm BakerHostetler.

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The corporate raider’s book of etiquette and leveraged buyouts

Financial Times M&A

AUGUST 9, 2022

Plus, UK law firms try to make it in the US and capital markets lawyers break loose from their golden handcuffs

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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher adds New York-based M&A and PE partner

Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Scrivani was most recently a partner at international law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Scrivani advises private equity firms and public and private clients on leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions, public company acquisitions, sales and divestitures and mergers of equals.

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White & Case adds Partner to global debt finance practice

Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Global law firm White & Case is expanding its global debt finance practice and has appointed Lauren Winter, who has joined from Shearman & Sterling where she was Counsel, as a Partner in London. White & Case has dedicated bank lending, private credit & direct lending and borrower finance teams.

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Ropes & Gray’s latest Partner promotions include several PE lawyers

Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Global law firm Ropes & Gray has named 12 of its existing attorneys as the firm’s latest Partners, effective 1 November, including several whose practices cater for private equity and other private credit and private fund clients. She brings a deep understanding of technology and consumer brands.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school. KLINSKY: In 1979, it was the first leveraged buyout of a public company. We had sold the family business, maybe buy another family business one day through a leveraged buyout. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Milbank continues global PE growth with Partner appointment in LA

Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

International law firm Milbank has continued the expansion of its private equity capabilities with the appointment of Evan Roberts as a Partner in the firm’s Global Corporate/M&A Group based in its Los Angeles office.

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Transcript: David Roux, BayPine, Silver Lake Partners

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

One, two, there was a theory that these businesses had volatile cash flows and therefore couldn’t be leveraged, which was the, you know, the whole point of leveraged buyouts. Silver Lake was one of the first buyout shops built around making technology investments or investments in technology companies.

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