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Practice/Industry Group Overview
Gardere knows private equity. Whether on the investor or company side, private equity transactions are multi-level, complicated and fraught with risk. Our goal is to make the most complicated and risk-inherent deals simple to understand and execute. With roots in Texas and an international transactions list, our experience translates into success for clients. Whether a deal is regional, national or global, our understanding of private equity sets us apart in the legal industry.
A Focused Team
As a firm, we are strategically focused on private equity and have assembled a multi-disciplinary team to work with clients. The Private Equity Team is experienced in the full range of private equity-related transactions and activities. We integrate the firm’s varied legal disciplines to provide practical advice to help achieve critical business objectives. From raising investment funds and closing deals to providing strategic business consultation, protecting and evaluating intellectual property rights and helping executives navigate immigration rules, our team is experienced in the issues facing private equity clients.
Gardere’s private equity clients benefit from our team’s integration of multiple practice areas, including:
- Antitrust
- Banking and Finance
- Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization
- Corporate Governance
- Energy and Energy Services
- Immigration
- Intellectual Property
- Labor and Employment
- Legislative and Regulatory Affairs
- Litigation
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Securities
- Tax and Benefits
- Transfer Pricing
Our Clients
The Team represents clients in all levels of private equity deals and also provides full-service representation to portfolio companies.
Our private equity clients include:
- Private equity funds
- Private equity firms and other sponsors
- Professional investors
- Businesses seeking and obtaining private equity
- Executives and other professional investment managers
- Private equity funded portfolio companies
- Registered investment advisors
Private Equity Transactions
The Private Equity Team represents private equity funds, private equity firms and other sponsors, professional investors and businesses seeking and obtaining private equity in both middle market and larger equity investments and acquisitions as well as venture capital transactions.
The Team has extensive experience in investments and exit transaction structures of all kinds across a wide variety of industries, including:
- Energy
- Financial Services
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Manufacturing
- Real Estate
- Retail and Restaurant
- Service Businesses
- Suppliers and Distributors
- Technology
- Telecommunications
Portfolio Company Representation
Our experience representing private equity groups provides a depth of knowledge and perspective, including an insider’s understanding of the issues and concerns to the private equity investor, which we believe is very beneficial for our portfolio company clients. In addition to representing businesses seeking and obtaining private equity, we also represent private equity-backed portfolio companies in financing, acquisition and disposition transactions.
Organization of Fund Sponsors, Investment Funds and Related Matters
We advise fund sponsors, private equity firms and other sponsors on the full spectrum of legal issues relating to their businesses. We have organized funds and other investment partnerships involving a variety of structures and have advised our clients on a wide range of carried interested and other profit participation arrangements. We also represent investors, including pension funds, in their investments in funds and other investment partnerships, and executives in connection with compensation and profit participation arrangements.
Representative Private Equity Transactions
The Private Equity team has negotiated and closed domestic and international private equity transactions for investors and issuers. Following is a representative list of the team’s transactions.
Private Equity Fund Representation
- Representation of private equity funds in connections with their formation and fund raising.
- Representation of U.S. and European private equity funds in debt and equity investments in distribution, energy, environmental, food supply, healthcare, manufacturing, media, real estate, restaurants, retail, technology, telecom, and waste management businesses.
Representation of Other Investment Groups
- Representation of private equity investment groups in acquisitions and dispositions in various industries including energy, healthcare, media, real estate, retail and technology.
- Representation of institutional investors and pension plans in multiple investments in private equity funds, including funds in oil and gas, mezzanine debt, real estate, healthcare and information technology.
Representation of Portfolio Companies
- Representation as outside general counsel for numerous private equity portfolio companies.
- Representation of portfolio companies in acquisitions and dispositions in various industries including defense, energy, environmental, healthcare, manufacturing, media, real estate, retail, technology, and waste management.
- Representation of issuers in connection with private issuances of equity and debt.
- Representation of portfolio companies in their initial public offerings of equity securities.
- Representation of portfolio companies in registered exchange offers of their debt securities.
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