Private Equity

We act for private equity and venture capital houses, sovereign funds, family offices, management teams, and for buyers, sellers, and owners of businesses who may have involvement with private equity investors in the course of M&A, development capital, and capital release activity. We also advise private equity managers on the fundraising of associated deal finance and on the structuring, establishment, marketing, and ongoing day to day operation of private equity funds.

We provide equity funders with market leading commercial advice and assistance in relation to the latest deal funding mechanics and matters of a strategic nature. We are experts at drafting and negotiating equity funding and related M&A documentation. We drive deals to completion and our understanding and expertise in connection with typical financing arrangements, and fund and investor requirements enables us to ensure that deals are “fund friendly” from the outset.

We have acted for numerous funds and investors on transactions involving crowdfunding, angel investment, venture capital and Series A funding. We also support our clients through significant later stage investments from business growth and private equity funds, as well as in relation to admissions and placements through the London Stock Exchange markets.

Our deep knowledge of the private equity and venture capital industry and the associated structures involved allows us to provide first rate legal and commercial input to management teams and to buyers, sellers, and owners of businesses who encounter private equity whether through direct investment, capital release, deferred, roll over, or earn out consideration provisions, options or employment.

We are adept at transacting cross border M&A deals and utilise our network of best of breed overseas legal firms to assist us alongside our membership of the Terralex legal network. As part of Scotland's largest commercial law firm, our private equity and venture capital team lead commercial diligence services across the required legal disciplines to provide focused and relevant legal diligence products.

We also offer our clients quality personal and corporate tax and incentives structuring services relating to private equity and venture capital activity. This can comprise deal structuring and fund tax advice for equity providers, and personal advice for buyers, sellers, owners, and managers on the tax and incentives implications of investment and deal structures.