International Corporate Finance

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE FINANCE RANKINGS

UK BEST LAW FIRMS

Private Equity - Venture Capital Investment

The firms are listed alphabetically within each band

FIRMS LEADING PARTNERS

LEADING

1 Bird & Bird Geraint Lloyd, Simon Fielder, Struan Penwarden

Taylor Wessing James Goold, Simon Walker, Angus Miln

2 King & Wood Mallesons Michael Goldberg, Ylan Steiner

Osborne Clarke Alisdair Livingstone, Greg Leyshon, Robert Wood

EXCELLENT

1 Covington & Burling Paul Claydon, Louise Nash

Orrick Christopher A. Grew

2 Nabarro John Finnemore

Olswang Chris Mackie, Duncan McDonald

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

1 JAG Shaw Baker Tina Baker, James Shaw

Proskauer Steven Davis

2 Brown Rudnick Mark A. Dorff

Charles Russell Speechlys Chris Putt, Andrew Clarke

Gowling WLG Ian Piggin

Harbottle & Lewis Anthony Littner

Marriott Harrison Andrew Wigfall

RECOMMENDED

CMS Cameron McKenna Jason Zemmel

Fieldfisher Andrew Blankfield

Jones Day Adam Greaves, Raymond McKeeve

Mills & Reeve Zickie Lim

Stephenson Harwood Elizabeth Field

WilmerHale Joe Pillman

Track record: KWM advised Vitruvian Partners

on its lead in a $65m Series C investment in

Just-Eat and a $66m Series D investment in

FarFetch. The firm has also advised on the

financing of a host of growth companies

including Blippar, Sefaira and IdeaWorks

3D. Seecamp and RIT Capital Partners are

significant clients.

Team & differentiation: There are seven

partners and a total of 17 other lawyers who

are part of the private equity practice at

KWM. Ylan Steiner, a specialist in venture

and growth financings, is practice leader

and has a special passion for the technology

industry owing to his previous experience as

a software programmer.

L eaders:

Michael Goldberg and Ylan

Steiner

E stablished:

2012

Ylan Steiner

KING & WOOD MALLESONS (KWM): A VERSATILE PRACTICE HANDLING A PLETHORA OF PE MATTERS