Routinely advising private equity investors, hedge funds, and institutional investors, DLA Piper offers private equity capabilities spanning fund structuring, acquisitions, and divestments. Recent representative transactions cover sectors including data centres, energy, and defence. Practice head Jose Maria Gil-Robles advises on structuring investments and divestments for both domestic and international clients. Yoko Takagi, a key contact for private equity houses and infrastructure funds, joined from White & Case LLP in September 2024.
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Testimonials
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- ‘DLA's private equity team has extensive experience and expertise. They have people who are very adept at handling these types of transactions and who negotiate them very effectively.’
- ‘José María Gil-Robles has a very broad vision of the business, which allows him to anticipate any future problems within the framework of M&A negotiations.’
- ‘This is a firm with a comprehensive practice that covers all client needs. They are very approachable, even integrating themselves as if they were an extension of your organisation in transactions, providing support to all areas of the company. Completely accessible and proactive, they anticipate and advise when necessary.'
- ‘Yoko Takagi surpasses all the lawyers I have worked with to date. Her dedication and commitment are unparalleled. She fully understands her clients' objectives and needs, integrates seamlessly into their teams, and helps bring them to fruition, from conception to execution, down to the last detail.'
- ‘They are pro-deal lawyers. They have an excellent balance of seriousness, technical competence, and ability to manage the buyer-seller relationship, so they defend their client without straining or breaking the agreement, preserving the transaction.’
- ‘They are technically skilled and persistent, defending the client without resorting to aggression and preserving the transaction. A perfect balance.’
Key clients
- Suma Capital
- Avenue Capital
- Cerberus and Intrum
- Buenavista Equity Partners
- Bullhound Capital
- Victory Hill
- Team.blue
Work highlights
Advising Buenavista Equity Partners on its co-investment with Columbus Venture Partners on the €48m Series A4 and A5 funding round of Quibim; and on the acquisition of Chrestos Concept GmbH & Co. KG.
Advising Ziacom Group, a Spanish company owned by the private equity fund Suma Capital and specializing in dental solutions, on the acquisition of Lusobionic, a leading Portuguese company in the distribution of dental implants and biomaterials.
Advising Bullhound Capital on an 11,64% investment in the company Sesame Labs, S.L. through a capital increase; and the investment (€20m as part of a €189m funding round) in Multiverse Computing SL.
Practice head
José María Gil-Robles
Other key lawyers
Yoko Takagi; Enrique Chamorro; Almudena Comin