Practice

Private Equity

The global private equity team at Hogan Lovells has extensive experience advising private equity sponsors and investment funds on their investments and co-investments.

Whether you are a private equity sponsor, fund, co-investor, family office or a limited partner, our private equity team offers the experience, the global reach, sector knowledge, and dedicated legal advisors needed to execute your transactions in confidence across the globe.

Our fund clients also include alternative and multistrategy asset managers such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. We're your strategic collaborators from fund formation, to buy out, portfolio management through to exit. 

We have regulatory lawyers to guide you on investments in highly regulated sectors. These include financial services, insurance, energy, TMT, education, health care, and life sciences.  

We regularly counsel investors on their investments in sectors such as hotels and leisure, real estate, business services, consumer and retail, transport and logistics, industrials, automotive, and chemicals.

We can service your ongoing portfolio company, management incentive plans, and tax structuring work cost effectively. 

We work closely with our investment fund lawyers on secondary transactions and they also advise sponsors and investors on fund formation and fund investments. Our fund formation team provides the legal support and regulatory insight you need for the formation, marketing, and operation of both onshore and offshore investment funds. 

By using our project management skills, we can help you execute your investment strategy successfully.

Representative experience

We advised Brookfield Business Partners on its acquisition of an 85% stake in Greenergy.

We advised KRG Capital Partners on its sale of Vention Medical to MedPlast Inc. and Nordson.

We advised Mountaingate Capital on its acquisition of Elite SEM Inc.

We advised Activa Capital in relation to its investment in HR Path.

We advised Terra Firma on its acquisition of the hotel chain Welcome Hotels from the Warsteiner Group.

We've advised One Rock Capital Partners on various transactions, including its acquisition of two chemicals businesses based in Germany.

We advised EQT on the sale of Blizoo Macedonia and Blizoo Bulgaria to Telekom Austria.

We advised KIRKBI on its acquisition of Armacell, alongside Blackstone.

We've advised ACON Investments on numerous transactions including its acquisitions of Injured Workers Pharmacy, LLC and Igloo Products Corp.

We advised Investindustrial on the disposal by Investindustrial Group and KKR of Avincis Group to Babcock International Group PLC for an enterprise value of €2bn.

We advised HIG Capital Partners on its acquisitions of Pan y Bollería Artesanal de Panaria, S.L. and Salmaneco, S.L.

We advised ACON Investments as well as co-investors Fairfax Financial and Albright Capital in a buyout of APR Energy.

We advised Groupe IDI on its investments in Amalric, Alkan, and Pennel & Flipo.

We've advised Navis Capital Partners on numerous transactions including its acquisition of an 80% equity stake in ISA Industrial Limited and the sale of REL.

We advised Quadriga on the sale of Punker Holding GmbH to Cross Private Equity.

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