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Private Equity: Buyouts: £500 million and above

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Private Equity: Buyouts: £500 million and above - UK-wide

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What the Team is Known For

Weil continues to be a destination practice for high-value, complex and multi-jurisdictional buyouts, offering strength across Europe, Asia and the USA. Its enviable client roster includes distinguished private equity firms, as well as state-backed funds, secondary investors and multi-asset managers. The department is able to leverage a highly regarded debt and financing advisory practice to offer complementary skills in LBO work. Its broad sector expertise includes advising on deals in the real estate, financial services and technology fields.

Work Highlights

  • Weil advised Advent International, along with Aareal Bank, on its sale of Aareon to TPG and CDPQ. The transaction is valued at approximately EUR3.9 billion.

Strengths

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The team at Weil have high technical ability combined with absolute client dedication and the ability to execute fast.

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Weil has very experienced lawyers with a commercial approach who focus on making the client's life easier.

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Weil exude a unique balance of intellectual rigour, enabling rapid reactions to complex situations, with commercial acumen, facilitating the execution of such intellect to the fullest extent.

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The firm distinguishes itself in being able to simplify complex issues and find creative and legally sound solutions.

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Weil are experts in private equity M&A transactions, with extremely responsive and tenacious partners. The firm boasts a superb team of highly capable partners who can handle any matter with ease.

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Notable Practitioners

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Marco Compagnoni
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Marco Compagnoni
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Marco Compagnoni practises at the top rung of the market and is acclaimed for the quality of his transactional expertise. Prestigious private equity firms routinely come to him for counsel on complex international deals.

Marco is an outstanding professional and highly recommended.

If you want a lawyer to do the most important and challenging deal, then go to Marco. He makes things happen.

Marco demonstrates huge levels of commitment to us. He is a trusted adviser in every aspect of what we do.

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Jonathan P Wood
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Jonathan P Wood
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Jonathan Wood is held in high regard due to his experience handling high-end private equity transactions. He displays strength in complex buyouts, carve-outs and takeovers.

Jonathan is a superb lawyer and a pleasure to work with.

Jonathan Wood is an absolute star. He balances a lot of factors extremely well and has creative yet sound ideas for how to solve complex problems.

He is great to work with and an effective negotiator.

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Lewis Blakey
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Lewis Blakey
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Up and Coming
Lewis Blakey is well thought of by his clients and peers for his private equity M&A practice. He routinely advises on cross-border transactions working in partnership with Weil's offices in Europe and the USA.

Lewis is a uniquely balanced individual with incredible intellect, commercial acumen and work ethic.

He gives very good advice and has a very good handle on things.

Lewis is a consummate deal lawyer and a go-to adviser for matters with the greatest complexity and tightest timelines. He is extremely tenacious and delivery-oriented.

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Max Oppenheimer
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Max Oppenheimer
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Up and Coming

Max Oppenheimer is a London-based partner who is noted for his ability to advise on complex private equity and M&A transactions. He is able to assist on cross-border acquisitions, disposals and carve-outs, among other matters.

Max is highly commercial with strong technical skills. He is also highly responsive and has the ability to deliver clear advice under pressure.

He is very efficient and knows how to keep clients happy.

Max is very user-friendly, proactive and thoughtful in the work he does. This is all done to a high standard.

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Marco Compagnoni
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Marco Compagnoni
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Jonathan P Wood
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Jonathan P Wood
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Lewis Blakey
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Lewis Blakey
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Max Oppenheimer
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Max Oppenheimer
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Up and Coming
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