Claire McDaid > Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Claire McDaid
Work Department
Corporate & Financial Services
Position
Claire McDaid is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group in London. She focuses on private equity and corporate M&A transactions, advising principally financial sponsors, family offices, corporates and strategic investors on a variety of cross-border investment transactions, including leveraged buyouts, complex carve-outs, club deals, growth equity, recapitalisations and liquidity transactions. Claire has particular experience in the distressed and turnaround sphere, advising a variety of stakeholders in such transactions across Europe.
Education
London Business School, Executive Corporate Finance Course, 2006; College of Law, PGLP, 2002; University of Edinburgh, LLB (Hons), 1999
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
‘A commercially driven team which gets things done‘, Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP is regularly engaged by a number of sponsors for assistance with big-ticket transactions. Practice head Gavin Gordon is the key relationship partner for a number of the team’s leading clients, who turn to Gordon for his expertise in cross-border matters with a European or transatlantic aspect. David Arnold is a seasoned PE partner who regularly handles strategic buy and sell-side mandates, while Claire McDaid‘s expertise is notably concentrated in distressed transactions. Other active advisers include Philip Coletto, who often works on deals involving tech or financial services assets, and Andrew Gray, who regularly works with a range of established US and UK firms.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > High yield
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration