Proskauer Rose LLP > London, England > Firm Profile

‘The Private Funds team at Proskauer is one of the most experienced and dedicated teams that I know. Very efficient and pragmatic with strong business oriented approach. They’re able to to bring on board specialist and expert when needed.’

‘An agile team with good experience. Strong access to the overall platform of Proskauer if needed and good availability of the most experienced partners if needs be. A gender-balanced team with a mix of backgrounds and languages spoken. Practice covers all aspects of our business and is well tooled to answer all our needs.’

‘Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is an outstanding partner, very experienced, very agile, creative and intelligent. The support of Jordan Hurwitz is strong as well to run the practice. They both know our key criteria to negotiate, get straight to the point and can be very educational for us on complex matters.’

‘The Private Funds practice at Proskauer Rose is unlike any other in that they are able to fully integrate into our structure in order to operate almost as an extension of our team. They have the ability to advise our front office teams and work with them to find the best course of action as we well as liaising with our back office, admin and legal teams to push the issue forward within our oversight framework.’

‘Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is our lead partner at Proskauer. He’s very well organized and is always be on top of all the deals we’re working with his team on. I appreciate his client oriented approach and his team’s general availability to support us on multiple deals at the same time.’

‘Chris Elson stands out with his calm demeanor, balanced views, network, and work ethic.’

‘A team with great strength and depth. They train and bring on their associates very well with strong technical skills and market insight and commerciality from a fairly early stage. This, coupled with their traditionally strong senior team make them go-to advisers.’

‘Lucie Rose is an exceptional lawyer and has stewarded many of our investments. Warren Allan is deeply knowledgably yet incredibly practical and helpful.’

‘Really strong and well regarded team. Innovative for data across the UK mid- market.’

‘The team has a strong knowledge of the market, is personable and easy to work with.’

‘It is a large team of partners, with in my view the best experience of the direct lending market having worked with all the market players on the lender side.’ 

‘The very experienced Alex Griffith has seen it all and is capable of sorting out any situation – always in a very friendly way.’

‘Ben Davis is very commercial, knows how to set his priorities, understands the commercial “ins and outs” of a transaction and can act accordingly from a legal perspective. It is always a pleasure to work with Ben.’

‘Ben Davis is one of the best lawyers I have ever worked with – going through every detail.’

‘Faisal Ramzan is outstanding.’

‘Large tax team experienced and efficient in fund formation and transactional work.’

‘Robert Gaut and Catherine Sear are very good.’

‘The team provides a great combination of superior technical expertise along with the ability to positively interact with prospective and existing investors. The team’s ability to explain technical items to non-tax professionals and gain their trust and comfort is second to none.’

‘Mary Kuusisto is the best tax attorney in private equity – full stop. There is nobody that compares to her technical knowledge and ability to manage client and investor relationships.’

‘Strong team with commercial focus, availability and accurate cost scoping and billing.’

‘Cameron Roper is a stand-out member of the team. He provides clear advice and is available at all times.’

‘Deep bench strength, excellent know-how and a good platform built around servicing fund clients that can really help to unpick thorny issues on transactions.’

‘Very commercial, technically strong, efficient and solution focused.’

‘Cameron Roper is simply excellent. He always provides clear and effective guidance. He knows when to give up points and when to dig in. He is our go-to lawyer for anything fund finance related.’

‘I have worked with Cameron Roper multiple times over the past few years. My team and I are always very impressed with the quality of advice he provides, the way he explains legal points and the quick replies.’

‘Persistence and dedication to getting the work done. They have a good sound commercial understanding of the issues around fund financing.’

‘We work almost exclusively with Cameron Roper. His persistence and dedication to getting the work done is commendable. He is easy to deal with and commercially minded.’

‘Unparalleled sector expertise, billing transparency, very commercial. Super insightful, always fight in your corner. Great M&A specialists. We’ve done five deals with them and we’re very excited to do more.’

‘Very friendly, commercial and always cater for your circumstances. Very open about billing, listen to the feedback. Market and sector expertise allows to provide necessary insights to me as the CEO and owner of the business.’

‘This team has an excellent legal expertise covering the broad corporate M&A space but with deeper sector knowledge that is invaluable. They work extremely hard and take innovative approaches to solving complex issues. They are able to leverage the other practices within Proskauer Rose, including regulatory issues and tax.’

‘Andrew Wingfield has – in my view – an unparalleled capacity to get things done. He is incisive and has an ability to cut through to the important issues and get them resolved. This helps remove emotion from often tricky M&A negotiations. He is creative when it comes to problem solving and his broader understanding of tax and regulatory impacts ensures there is no unnecessary duplication of effort, only bringing in those colleague as required.’

‘Andrew Wingfield’s grasp of complex corporate issues is excellent. His experience in and knowledge of regulated financial services, including the banking and insurance sectors, is invaluable.’

‘The Proskauer team is brilliant. They are very creative lawyers with real gumption for a fight when that is what their clients need. I have seen them pull clients out of situations that other firms would find very sticky indeed.’

‘Steven Baker and Dorothy Murray are both extremely bright, easy to work with, communicate well with clients and and are highly experienced. Really top class.’

‘Dorothy Murray, in particular, is brilliant. She considers every angle, including many that others would not perceive at all. But she is no “kitchen sink” lawyer. Having carefully considered every possibility, she selects and then ruthlessly prosecutes the strategies that are most likely to bring success to the client.’

‘Great heavyweight outfit with all the talents and strengths to litigate hard and successfully however big a dispute.’

‘Steven Baker – a class act at the top of his game.’

‘Advised on a sticky cross border matter and helped get to an efficient solution.’