Private equity and financial sponsors are central to Linklaters’ strategy and have been for many years. The legal directories and league tables consistently rank Linklaters as having one of the leading private equity practices and our clients benefit from our invaluable experience. We advise our clients in a commercial and pragmatic way and support them globally via our 31 offices.

Unlike many of our peers we have leading expertise in private M&A, public M&A, carve-out transactions and IPOs and offer a genuine full-service offering. Clients regularly point to the depth and breadth of our specialist practices as being a key differentiator. Whether it be our financial regulatory team helping a client navigate complex cross-border regulation, our anti-trust team advising on a sensitive price-fixing investigation, our IP team managing complex brand licensing issues on a corporate carve-out or our employment team managing a time-critical transfer of employees, our teams are leaders in their fields.