Cleary Gottlieb is a leading international law firm with 14 offices in major financial centers
worldwide. We operate as a single, integrated global partnership with more than 1,100
lawyers. We have been a private equity pioneer since the industry’s beginnings and across
multiple market cycles.

We know and understand the world of private equity. We have acted for decades as trusted
advisers to the world’s leading private equity firms and their portfolio companies on some of
the largest and most complex private equity transactions. Our support and advice are
responsive, commercially astute, and practical, helping our clients navigate an increasingly
complex and competitive transactional landscape.

We advise a variety of private equity sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, pensions funds,
family offices, and other financial investors, giving us exposure to the latest market practice
and developments in transactional technology across the globe.
Our private equity practice draws on the expertise of our private funds team to support our
clients throughout the full life cycle of a fund, bringing together specialist knowledge, skill
and deep sector expertise in fund formation and fund management, co-investment structures,
and fund liquidity strategies. Our clients turn to us for all of their transactional needs,
including growth equity, leveraged buyouts, hybrid capital solutions, and strategic
investments (and the financing solutions for those deals), as well as portfolio company
matters and exits.

Our fully integrated private equity practice includes lawyers from our mergers and
acquisitions, debt finance, private funds, antitrust, foreign direct investment and regulatory,
tax, employee benefits & ERISA, real estate, and capital markets practices, ensuring private
equity clients have the legal support necessary to thrive at every level – whether at the fund
level, at the sponsor level, at the deal level or at the portfolio company level.
We value our clients and our client relationships. We understand that every client is unique
and always tailor our approach in every private equity transaction to the client’s needs and
goals.