Clients rely on our lawyers in London to deliver premier legal services for their most complex and important cross-border transactions in the United Kingdom, Europe and beyond. With a focus on representing private equity funds and their portfolio companies, our London team is at the forefront in legal innovation in M&A, finance, capital markets, tax, antitrust, intellectual property and other key areas.
Our Capabilities
From the heart of one of the world’s great financial centers, lawyers in our London office advise clients on their most complex and high-profile transactions. Bringing the same dedication to client service for which Paul, Weiss is known globally, our diverse team of lawyers in London includes U.K.- and U.S.-qualified lawyers whose legal expertise is underpinned by a broad spectrum of cultures, languages and experiences. The team has achieved groundbreaking results for clients and is widely recognized for their expertise and innovations in legal transactional practice, including by Chambers UK, The Legal500 and IFLR1000.
Our London office focuses on representing private equity clients across the full breadth of transactional practices, including M&A, finance, capital markets, antitrust, tax, intellectual property and others. Leveraging years of leadership, we bring an expert and trusted focus to transactions for some of the world’s premier private equity funds.
The London office’s M&A team handles the most sophisticated cross-border M&A and corporate transactions, and the finance team has been at the forefront of innovations in financing structures for the past two decades, executing many of the market’s largest and most complex cross-border financings. The London office also offers comprehensive cross-border U.S. capital markets advice, whether on high-yield debt offerings, IPOs, liability management transactions or other complex securities issuances. Leading antitrust, U.K. tax, and intellectual property and technology transfer advisors, among others, round out our complete transactional offering in London.
In addition to the advantages afforded to all our clients by our London team’s expertise, U.K. and European market knowledge, and longstanding relationships across the United Kingdom and Europe, we seamlessly leverage our entire global platform, drawing on teams in New York, Washington, D.C., California, Hong Kong, Beijing, Tokyo, Toronto and Wilmington, Delaware, for our clients’ most important cross-border transactions.