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Carl Bradshaw

Position
Partner
Career
Carl Bradshaw is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and other private capital investments. Carl advises investors, founders, management teams and portfolio companies on complex business transactions across the technology, healthcare and life sciences, consumer, real estate and industrial sectors throughout Europe. He has structured and negotiated the full spectrum of domestic and cross-border deals, including leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, add-ons, public-to-privates, joint ventures and consortium deals, minority stake sales and acquisitions, structured and growth equity arrangements, and co-investments. He also counsels clients on investing through the cycle and across the capital structure, bringing to bear significant deal experience involving stressed or distressed companies, working closely with Goodwin’s financial restructuring team on turnaround opportunities and special situations.
Education
Legal Practice Course, 2008, University of Law London; Graduate Diploma in Law, 2007, Nottingham Law School; MPhil Innovation, Strategy and Organisation, 2006, University of Cambridge Judge Business School; Graduate Diploma in Management Studies, 2005, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School; BSc 2004, Loughborough University (Hons)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
‘A strong team with a good depth of knowledge’, Goodwin combines M&A and PE expertise with embedded European and US debt finance skill to serve a growing roster of financial sponsors, funds and management teams across a range of sectors. Regularly engaged on a number of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, practice head Richard Lever is noted for his M&A, corporate finance, and investment fund work. Gemma Roberts is praised as an ‘outstanding lawyer’ with a far-reaching transactional practice, while Michael Miranda has recently added a series of cross-border disposals to an already varied deal sheet. Carl Bradshaw also comes recommended for his multi-sector specialism and his skill in financial restructuring. Christian Iwasko, Michelle Tong, and Priya Rupal left to join Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in March 2024.
London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
‘Strong, knowledgeable, always available’, Goodwin combines M&A and PE expertise with embedded European and US debt finance skill to serve a growing roster of financial sponsors, funds and management teams across a range of sectors. Regularly engaged on a number of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, practice head Richard Lever is noted for his M&A, corporate finance, and investment fund work. Gemma Roberts is praised as an ‘outstanding’ lawyer with a far-reaching transactional practice, while Michael Miranda has recently added a series of cross-border disposals to an already varied deal sheet. Carl Bradshaw also comes recommended for his multi-sector specialism and his skill in financial restructuring.
Lawyer Rankings
- Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m) London > Corporate and commercial
- Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+) London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)