Private Equity Litigation

Our litigators have decades of experience representing private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Combining exceptional first-chair trial skills with interdisciplinary knowledge of regulatory and legal issues, we take a creative and outcome-oriented approach to litigation, disputes, and investigations while remaining sensitive to the speed at which the private equity industry operates.

We represent private equity firms and their portfolio companies through all phases of the investment life cycle, including conducting critical litigation due diligence, advising on drafting arbitration and indemnification provisions in purchase agreements, litigating and arbitrating post-purchase disputes, and representing portfolio companies in their significant litigation and investigations post-acquisition.

We also maintain strong relationships with an extensive network of government lawyers and enforcement officials, who can provide private equity clients the necessary level of credibility and experience in acquiring a target or advise a portfolio company facing a significant regulatory issue.

We handle a range of matters involving:

We’ve assisted private equity clients with the following:

• Representation of a managing partner of a private equity firm who was serving as Chairman of the Board of a company facing alleged federal securities law violations.
• Representation of a private equity firm in a pre-litigation dispute with two of its former employees regarding their separation from the private equity firm to start a new private equity firm.
• Representation of a private equity firm in a lawsuit alleging tortious interference with portfolio company’s employment contracts with executives and former owners.