Corporate/M&A & Private Equity

Goodwin has a team of attorneys in DC who work as part of a national platform, handling a broad range of corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, tender offers, direct secondary transactions, spinoffs, divestitures and going private transactions. We represent investors, portfolio companies and public companies in key industry sectors including technology, clean technology, life sciences, healthcare services, financial services, consumer and business services, among others. We possess unparalleled strength and significant experience representing middle market PE firms with a mix of blue-chip clients. Our lawyers have also handled a significant number of cross-border deals and are a dominant player in the technology sector.

Goodwin is recognized as a market-leader in growth equity transactions. As longtime advisors to the broad spectrum of growth equity sponsors since the early 2000s, our dedicated growth equity practice draws from the best of our market-leading middle-market buyout and venture capital practices to structure transactions that result in long term and effective partnerships between investors, entrepreneurs and management teams. Over the past 5 years, we have advised on 800+ growth equity transactions and represent 68% of the top 25 Growth Cap funds (as designated by GrowthCap).