Practice Areas & Industries: Jones Day

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Jones Day regularly represents a wide variety of private equity funds. Our practice includes the representation of both large and small private equity investors at each stage of the investment cycle; our expanding private equity client base includes venture capital funds, later-stage funds, and distressed funds; and we assist private equity investors in evaluating, structuring, negotiating, and consummating hundreds of private equity transactions each year. Our private equity lawyers function in three areas: leveraged buyouts, venture capital, and fund formation. Jones Day is one of the leading international law firms in the area of leveraged buyout transactions, has pioneered the development of various acquisition and financing techniques for these transactions, and has engineered a variety of these transactions in a wide array of industries. Our Venture Capital Practice involves investments in situations ranging from early-stage companies to growth companies, along with exit transactions as investments mature. Our fund formation lawyers possess extensive experience in organizing private equity funds and have represented numerous fund sponsors in their capital-raising efforts in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, as well as lead investors.

To best represent our private equity clients, Jones Day also draws upon all areas of our practices. Our banking and finance lawyers regularly serve on teams representing borrowers and lenders in private equity acquisitions with broad experience in senior bank lending and all forms of mezzanine finance. Our corporate finance lawyers are active participants in the market for "high yield" securities to support private equity acquisitions. Our business restructuring and reorganization lawyers are regularly involved in new and innovative acquisition and financing structures for distressed companies. Our tax and employee benefits lawyers play a major role in structuring leveraged acquisitions and management equity programs, respectively. Our intellectual property, real estate, labor, antitrust, and environmental lawyers are regularly enlisted to assist in acquisition and investment due diligence and to advise on the results of such due diligence.

Clients represented by Jones Day as principals in private equity transactions include:

• ABN AMRO Ventures
• Activa Capital
• ACI Capital
• Advent Venture Partners
• AGF Private Equity
• American Securities Capital Partners
• Apax Partners
• Atlas Venture
• Auriga Partners
• AXA Private Equity
• Baird Capital Partners Europe
• BancBoston Capital
• Bay Harbour Management, L.C.
• Blue Chip Venture Company
• Blue Point Capital Partners
• Bowmark Capital
• Brockway Moran & Partners
• Cerberus Partners
• Cravey, Green & Wahlen
• Charterhouse Investment Capital
• Draper Triangle Ventures
• Evercore Capital Partners
• Fidelity Private Equity
• Francisco Partners
• Goode Partners
• Granville Baird Capital Partners
• Gresham Private Equity
• GTCR Golder Rauner, LLC
• H.I.G. Capital/Bayside Opportunity Fund, L.P.
• High Road Capital Partners
• Indigo Capital
• Industrial Growth Partners
• I-Source Gestion
• J.F. Lehman & Company
• JZ International
• Kelso Place Asset Management
• Key Principal Partners
• Kirtland Capital Partners
• Littlejohn & Co. LLC
• Marwyn Capital
• Maverick Capital, Ltd
• MCM Capital Partners
• Merlin Ventures
• Morgan Stanley Private Equity
• Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds
• Morgenthaler Partners
• NBGI Private Equity
• Newbridge Capital
• Noro-Moseley Partners
• Northlight Capital
• Ospraie Management, L.P.
• Pamplona Capital Partners
• Parallel Investment Partners
• Partech International, Inc.
• Peachtree Equity Partners
• Platinum Equity
• Primus Capital
• Questor Partners
• Ripplewood Holdings
• The Riverside Company
• Sequoia Capital
• Seventure Partners
• Siparex
• SOFTBANK Asia Infrastructure Fund
• Sovereign Capital
• STAR Capital Partners
• Stonehenge Partners
• Sun Capital Partners
• TSG Consumer Partners LP
• Warburg Pincus
• Wasserstein & Co., LP
• Wendell Investissement
• WL Ross & Co. LLC

Jones Day also regularly represents many of the most active lead investors in private equity funds. These clients include the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association, the Hudson River Fund, the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, Pillar Property PLC, and the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana.

Contact(s)

Charles W. Hardin Jr.
Cleveland
Tel: 1.216.586.3939

Robert F. Kennedy
New York
Tel: 1.212.326.3939

Adam Greaves
London
Tel: 44.20.7039.5959

Michael Nouril
London
Tel: 44.20.7039.5959

H. John Kao
Hong Kong
Tel: 852.2526.6895