Ranking Table

Private Equity

This section covers firms and lawyers providing mostly transactional advice for private equity clients, such as direct investments into private companies, buyouts of public companies (MBO, MBI, BIMBO), secondary transactions, take-privates, PIPEs and pre-IPO investments. Venture capital investments and transactions and work on behalf of funds, investors, venture capital firms, private equity firms and financial institutions are also looked at by researchers.

How rankings work?
How rankings work?

  • Band 1

    Clifford Chance LLP

    Clifford Chance LLP

    5 years ranked

    Freshfields

    Freshfields

    5 years ranked

    Kirkland & Ellis

    Kirkland & Ellis

    5 years ranked

    Latham & Watkins LLP

    Latham & Watkins LLP

    5 years ranked

    Linklaters

    Linklaters

    5 years ranked

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

    5 years ranked

    Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

    Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

    5 years ranked

  • Band 2

    Goodwin Procter LLP

    Goodwin Procter LLP

    5 years ranked

    Ropes & Gray LLP

    Ropes & Gray LLP

    5 years ranked

    White & Case LLP

    White & Case LLP

    5 years ranked

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

    5 years ranked

  • Band 3

    A&O Shearman

    A&O Shearman

    2 years ranked

    Baker McKenzie

    Baker McKenzie

    2 years ranked

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

    1 year ranked

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

    Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

    5 years ranked

    DLA Piper LLP

    DLA Piper LLP

    2 years ranked

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

    3 years ranked

    Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

    Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

    5 years ranked

    Sidley Austin LLP

    Sidley Austin LLP

    1 year ranked

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