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Contacts:
Alan Greenough, London
Jeffrey M. Hurlburt, New York/London

Hogan Lovells has one of the most global and sophisticated private equity practices in the world. We assist private equity and venture capital houses in making investments locally in countries throughout the world, and globally in cross-border transactions. Hogan Lovells is ranked 4 for advising on Global Completed Private Equity Deals in the Bloomberg 2010 league tables, a clear demonstration of the strength of our combined platform and the extensive scale of our international private equity capability.

Hogan Lovells Private Equity practice has lawyers resident in 14 countries operating in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and United States, offering world class service to private equity houses and their portfolio companies.  As more private equity houses undertake cross border deals, Hogan Lovells are ideally placed to act on these transactions.

We offer sophisticated advice for the full life cycle of an investment or portfolio company. Our lawyers represent private equity and venture capital houses through their growth cycle, including fund formation; new money or private equity investments; financings; initial public offerings, as well as in mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, or trade sale exits.

Our lawyers bring a strong "sector approach" to deals, bringing to bear a legal team which couples transactional experience, industry knowledge and regulatory capability. Our interdisciplinary approach provides significant differentiation to the advice we provide our clients, both in connection with making investment decisions and developing post-investment growth strategies. We strive to build client relationships based on the simple principle that whatever the issue, we will deliver the answers you need, when you need them.



Awards and Rankings
  • Shortlisted in Legal Adviser of the Year category at Private Equity Awards 2010 hosted by the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and Real Deals.
  • Nominated for Private Equity and M&A Team of the Year 2009 by Financial News.
  • Nominated for the EVCJ PE Team of the Year 2008 award.
  • Finalist for Private Equity Legal Advisor of Year 2008 at the Financial Times and Mergermarket European M&A Awards.
  • Ranked in tier one for Corporate/M&A & Private Equity in Washington, D.C. by Chambers USA in 2007-2011.
  • Recommended for Private Equity: Transactions and Venture Capital by UK Legal 500 in 2009.
  • Ranked among the top 5 legal advisors for global and U.S. completed PE M&A transactions by Bloomberg in 2010.

Representative clients
  • ABS Capital Partners
  • ACON Investments
  • Advent International
  • Astorg Partners
  • Axa Private Equity
  • Darwin Private Equity
  • Doughty Hanson & Co. Technology Ventures
  • Energy Special Situations Fund
  • Exponent Private Equity
  • Herkules Capital
  • Kelso Place Asset Management
  • Northzone Ventures
  • Warburg Pincus