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Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)

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Hogan Lovells International LLP

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Detailed as a ‘excellent team’ with a ’highly specialised approach’, Hogan Lovells International LLP routinely represents private equity houses in domestic and cross-border M&A, alongside strategic investments and management buyouts. The team’s cross-sector focus is vast, ranging from tech and energy to entertainment and insurance, with the head Ed Harris being praised as ‘well-informed’. Joining him in London, James Cross concentrates on private equity transactions, while Leanne Moezi is knowledgeable in secondary acquisitions. John Connell is well versed in exits for major private equity clients, and John Livesey is also cited as a key contact.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘We had an incredibly tight time frame with operating entities in several jurisdictions. Included in the DD requirements were complex relative to the size of the transaction with ongoing litigation in several countries which had to be examined, risk analyzed and indemnities carefully structured.'

  • ‘Excellent team, highly collaborative, very well informed and current on key topics, highly valued partnership and advice, commercial and efficient.’

  • ‘John Connell - valued and trusted partner and adviser, deep knowledge of my business and priorities, highly commercial, able to provide clear, actionable and proactive advice.’

  • ‘The team has a highly specialised approach to LP secondary transactions, combining industry-leading partners with highly dependable associates and juniors. The combination of responsiveness, speed and precision Hogan Lovells strike is of a rare level. We recommend them to 100% of our clients, hoping that we get to work with them.’

  • ‘Leanne Moezi is a true superhero, she is Batman. Not only is she incredibly knowledgeable and constantly keeping updated of new developments from a legal perspective, she has a unique ability to plain-English important and difficult concepts. She sets the tone for transactions, her team and the clients. Lily Wu, her superstar Associate, is Robin. She knows secondary transactions inside out, has an incredible attention to detail and an infinite tank.’

  • ‘The team are far more flexible and kinder in the way they communicate to counterparties, which has helped for more constructive and quicker progress on processes.’

Key clients

  • CVC Capital Partners
  • Soho Square Capital
  • Astatine Investment Partners
  • Oaktree Capital Management
  • Apis Partners
  • Literacy Capital plc
  • Qatar Insurance Company
  • Supponor
  • Sales-i
  • Z100 Community Limited
  • Wanda
  • Aurelius / Filtrona Group Holdings Limited

Work highlights

Advised CVC, which has invested alongside KKR to support Superstruct Entertainment Group in its next phase of development as one of the world’s premier live entertainment groups.
Advised Pantheon and Eurazeo as lead investors on Astorg’s €1.4bn continuation fund to support portfolio company Normec, a leading provider of testing, inspection, certification and compliance services, employing over 5,000 people across 6 European countries.
Advised Soho Square Capital and the other shareholders of Assured Data Protection on an investment by Oakley Capital; and on its investments in Newmarket Holidays and Live Manage Facilitate.

Practice head

Ed Harris

Other key lawyers

James Cross; Leanne Moezi; John Connell; John Livesey; Simon Grimshaw; Cees Brouwer; Anthony Doolittle; Charlotte Monk; Lily Wu