Private equity

When a company has a great business and needs more capital to expand it’s at a cross roads – private equity offers a route to access capital and to grow value leading to an exit.

We have considerable experience of advising clients on how to access and secure private equity funding. Not only can we advise on the technical terms of finance, but we have contacts within the private equity sector to make introductions and facilitate the deal process. Importantly, we are also fully up to date with “market” terms and approaches so we can ensure that clients secure the best possible deal from funders.

It’s essential for any company looking at the private equity route that they have the support of commercially aware lawyers and ones who can stand up to other advisers. We pride ourselves on our reputation and expertise and have a proven track record of working with clients from the start of a private equity fund raising process through to eventual exit.

We have set out below a few of the private equity deals that that we have advised on:-

	We were principal legal adviser on the “Bluestone” holiday village which involved a £60+ million structure. Within our role we advised private equity fund Polygon on its funding structure and terms.
	We advised National Britannia Group on its funding from private equity house, Lyceum Capital followed by eventual exit in a £95m+ trade sale.
	We have advised the James Hull Group on several rounds of institutional finance involving complex debt and equity structures.
	We advised Omniport on its first round of private equity finance which was a funding package from Penta Capital and Caledonia Investments plc.
	We advised retirement village developer Renaissance Lifecare plc and its shareholders on an investment of a significant undisclosed sum by Equity International, a private equity fund headquartered in Chicago, USA which invests in real-estate based companies operating outside the US.