盛德拥有十分广泛的私募业务,分布于全球10所办公室的逾80名律师专注于为我们的私募客户提供咨询。本所的私募律师在私募交易的各个领域均有深入经验,从价值数十亿美元的杠杆收购 (LBO) 到较低及中间市场公司的成长股权投资。
本所的业务内容包括:
- 引导复杂的私募交易,例如私有化交易、“俱乐部交易”、赞助策略和赞助商的赞助协议和其他杠杆收购、跨国分拆收购、投资组合公司的补强收购和资产剥离、股息资本重组、首次公开发行 (IPO)、公共股权的私人投资 (PIPE) 和复杂的合资安排。
- 代表由私募发起人组成的投资组合公司处理各类问题,包括债务和股权融资、补偿安排、监管和诉讼事务以及常规公司事务。
- 通过利用本所丰富的业务实践,为全球各地客户就所有相关法律领域提供咨询,包括税务、劳动就业、监管、房地产、反垄断、破产和债务、知识产权、诉讼和环保事务。本所诸多以行业为核心的顶尖的服务领域成为盛德在私募业务领域区别于其他律师事务所的显著优势,其中包括保险、金融服务、生命科学、能源、科技、房地产信托基金、农业和媒体。
盛德私募业务团队与本所顶尖的环球金融业务团队紧密合作,以协助我们私募客户的融资需求。本所的环球金融律师对各种类型的融资事务均有全面的经验,包括抵押及无抵押高级银行债务、高收益债券、夹层融资、卖方融资、项目融资和证券化。与该业务团队的合作为本所客户增加了巨大的价值。同时,盛德 私募团队与盛德出众的私募基金设立业务团队紧密配合。我们认为,向客户提供这类全方位的服务十分重要,协助客户进行基金的持续监管维护与合规亦是如此。
Our work encompasses:
- Leading complex transactions such as going-private transactions, “club deals,” sponsor to strategic and sponsor to sponsor deals and other LBOs, multinational carve-out acquisitions, portfolio company bolt-on acquisitions and divestitures, dividend recapitalizations, initial public offerings (IPOs), private investment in public equities (PIPEs) and sophisticated joint venture arrangements.
- Representing portfolio companies of private equity sponsors in a variety of matters, including debt and equity financings, compensation arrangements, regulatory and litigation matters and general corporate matters.
- Advising clients worldwide, and in all relevant areas of law, by harnessing the firm’s broad range of legal disciplines, including tax, employment, regulatory, real estate, antitrust, bankruptcy and work-out, intellectual property, litigation and environmental. We draw on the talent of many of the firm’s top-tier industry-focused practice areas, among them, insurance, financial services, life sciences, energy, technology, REITS, agriculture and media, which provides to us a distinguishing factor among other firms in the private equity arena.
Our team works seamlessly with the firm’s top-tier Global Finance practice to cover the financing needs of our private equity clients. Our global finance lawyers have comprehensive experience with all types of financing, including secured and unsecured senior bank debt, high yield, mezzanine facilities, seller financing, project finance and securitizations. Being able to draw on their talent adds tremendous value for our clients. Similarly, our team works closely with Sidley’s top-rated Private Equity Fund Formation practice. We believe it vital to offer clients the full range of those services, as well as to provide assistance in the ongoing regulatory maintenance and compliance of their funds.