Alexander B Temel

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ALEXANDER TEMEL is a co-leader of Sidley’s international Private Equity practice. With a transactional practice focused on advising private equity clients in connection with leveraged recapitalizations, management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, structured preferred and growth equity investments, and search fund transactions, Alex regularly represents clients in the software, financial services, business and consumer services, oil and gas, real estate, healthcare, and media industries. He also serves as primary general counsel to a number of privately held companies and represents entrepreneurs and management teams in connection with rollover transactions and new ventures.

As co-leader of the firm’s Private Equity practice, Alex leads one of the largest and most elite teams in the world focused on private equity clients and other leading financial sponsors. With more than 550 lawyers practicing across 20 offices globally, the group has deep experience across the broad spectrum of private equity transactions, from multibillion-dollar leveraged buyouts to growth equity investments in premium middle market companies.

In his own practice, Alex is known for his vast expertise, no-nonsense business approach, and single-minded focus on getting deals done. Many of the world’s leading private equity firms –Goldman Sachs, Great Hill Partners, Housatonic Partners, Sixth Street, Thayer Street Partners, and TVV Capital, among others – depend on Alex to navigate their most complex transactions. With practicality, he skillfully keep deals on track to their successful completion.

Alex also represents more than 50 search funds and related investors, in addition to serving as primary general counsel to many PE clients’ portfolio companies and a number of private companies. As a strategic legal and business advisor to these enterprises, which include BigChange, Buyers Edge Platform, EnterpriseDB, Gizmodo, Global Rescue, Ikon Science, Locus Robotics, Not On The High Street, QMC Telecom International, Prodege, TodayTix, and Varicent, Alex plays a key role in their day-to-day operations.

No matter the challenge, Alex works hand-in-hand with his clients as a true partner and collaborator to achieve their business goals.