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Sidley Austin is one of the world’s largest law firms, with a practice highly attuned to the ever-changing international landscape. The firm has built a reputation for being a powerful adviser for global business, with approximately 1700 lawyers in 17 offices worldwide. Sidley maintains a commitment to providing quality legal services wherever they are needed, offering advice in transactional, regulatory and litigation matters spanning virtually every area of law. The firm’s lawyers leverage their diversity of knowledge and wide-reaching legal backgrounds with a dedication to teamwork, collaboration and superior client service.
The firm: The London office comprises approximately 110 English and US-qualified lawyers.
Types of work undertaken: Competition/antitrust: the team assists clients with all types of competition matters, including global merger clearances, antitrust investigations by UK and EU authorities, EU state aid cases and litigation before the European and English courts, as well as counselling, compliance, and policy projects.
Corporate: the team advises on all corporate and commercial matters, including public and private M&A, joint ventures, IPOs, principal finance, private equity and structured investments. The firm acts for both institutions and corporates and often across multiple jurisdictions.
Corporate reorganisation and bankruptcy: the firm has a prominent practice in insolvency and corporate reorganisation. It extends to court-supervised proceedings in England and Wales and in the US, and out-of-court work-outs and restructurings, worldwide.
Corporate securities: the team represents principal participants in the European capital markets. These include sovereign, agency and private sector issuers and guarantors as well as financial intermediaries such as investment banks, sponsors, financial advisers and trustees.
Debt restructuring, debt finance and structured finance: the firm has the resources to handle the largest and most complex transactions, providing advice on debt finance and structured finance to lenders, borrowers, arrangers, underwriters, servicers and special servicers, credit enhancers, liquidity banks and credit rating agencies. The firm also counsels on restructuring, assisting lenders and other creditors, borrowers and their directors, sponsors, trustees and other service providers.
Dispute resolution: the team acts on high-value multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes for clients across many sectors. It handles litigation and international and domestic arbitration and provides advice relating to complex financial transactions, restructuring, manufacturing, supply and distribution agreements, licensing agreements and enforcement of IP rights, regulatory investigations and product liability issues.
Financial services regulation: the firm advises banks, investment firms, insurance companies, payment service providers and their intermediaries on UK and EU financial services regulation, including on establishing and operating regulated financial services businesses in the UK and the EU.
Insurance: the team deals with mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and reorganisation of international groups to address Solvency II, solvent schemes of arrangement, business transfers, distribution and other commercial agreements, insolvencies and restructuring of insurers, run-offs, alternative risk transfers (ART), Part VII and also cross-border business transfers and capital raising.
Investment funds: the firm advises on all aspects of the structure and operation of hedge funds, private equity and real estate funds and other ‘alternative’ investment products. This includes their structuring and formation, marketing and distribution, trading and transactional documentation and the creation of structures or repackaging arrangements to access specific markets or investors.
Tax: the team advises on the UK tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and insolvency, capital markets, banking and structured finance, international investment funds and resolution of tax controversies, including tax litigation.
Sidley Austin LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership which operates at the firm’s offices other than Chicago, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, is affiliated with other partnerships, including Sidley Austin LLP, an Illinois limited liability partnership (Chicago); Sidley Austin LLP, a separate Delaware limited liability partnership (London); Sidley Austin LLP, a separate Delaware limited liability partnership (Singapore); Sidley Austin, a New York general partnership (Hong Kong); Sidley Austin, a Delaware general partnership of registered foreign lawyers restricted to practicing foreign law (Sydney); and Sidley Austin Nishikawa Foreign Law Joint Enterprise (Tokyo). The affiliated partnerships are referred to herein collectively as Sidley Austin, Sidley, or the firm.
Number of UK partners 40
Number of other UK fee-earners 90
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