International Corporate Finance

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE RANKINGS

UK BEST LAW FIRMS

Private Equity - Mid Cap

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS

LEADING

CMS Cameron McKenna James Grimwood, Andrew Sheach, Jason Zemmel

Macfarlanes Ian Martin, Charles Meek, Howard Corney

Travers Smith Ian Shawyer, Edmund Reed, Paul Dolman

EXCELLENT

1 Addleshaw Goddard Yunus Seedat, Andrew Carpenter

Baker & McKenzie David Allen

DLA Piper Jim Lavery, Edward Griffiths

Dickson Minto Alastair Dickson, Ewan Gilchrist

2 Hogan Lovells Alan Greenough, Tom Whelan

Jones Day Adam Greaves, Raymond McKeeve

King & Wood Mallesons Michael Goldberg, Ylan Steiner

Olswang Chris Mackie, Duncan McDonald

Osborne Clarke Alisdair Livingstone, Greg Leyshon

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Charles Russell Speechlys Malcolm MacDougall

O'Melveny & Myers John Daghlian

Pinsent Masons Gregg Davison

RECOMMENDED

Dechert Jonathan Angell

Proskauer Steven Davis

Squire Patton Boggs Tim Hewens

Stephenson Harwood Elizabeth Field

Taylor Wessing James Goold

Yunus Seedat

L eaders:

Yunus Seedat and Andrew

Carpenter

E stablished:

2003

Track record: Addleshaw Goddard’s active

middle-market PE team recently advised

NorthEdge Capital on its £66 million invest-

ment in Accrol Papers. Notable clients

include 3i, CBPE, Dunedin Capital Partners,

ECI, Equistone, Graphite, Inflexion, LDC,

Living Bridge, NorthEdge and Phoenix.

Team & differentiation: With eight partners

and 30 other qualified lawyers, the team

advises a number of mid-market investors

in the UK from its office in London. The cor-

porate and commercial division is headed

by Yunus Seedat. In the course of the last

20 years, he has undertaken transactions

across sectors like IT, media, retail and

engineering.

ADDLESHAW GODDARD:

ONE OF THE LARGEST SPECIALIST PE TEAMS IN THE UK

Edward Griffiths

L eaders:

Jim Lavery and Edward

Griffiths

E stablished:

2005

Track record: DLA Piper recently advised

Ascendis Health on the proposed acquisi-

tion of Remedica Holdings and represented

Duke Street in its £375m acquisition of

Voyage Healthcare. Other important clients

for the firm include Equistone, Barclays ven-

tures and Oaktree Capital Management.

Team & differentiation: From the London

office Edward Griffiths acts on both the

management and sponsor-side of PE tran-

sactions, working alongside 15 partners and

66 other lawyers who are part of the private

equity practice. The global reach of the firm

gives it a definite competitive advantage

in these times of increasingly international

deals in PE.

DLA PIPER:

A GLOBAL NETWORK WITH A ROBUST PE PRACTICE