Private Equity
The global private equity team at Hogan Lovells has
extensive experience advising private equity sponsors
and investment funds on their investments and coinvestments.
Whether you are a private equity sponsor, fund, coinvestor, 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 theglobe.
Our fund clients also include alternative andmultistrategy 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, businessservices, 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.

Key contacts
Ed Harris,London

Trending Topics
The Complete Private Capital
Lifecycle
Take a look at how we can support
private capital investors, and theirportfolio companies, through every
stage of the lifecycle.

Areas of focus
Automotive Venture Capital
Investors
Bolt-ons
Buy Outs
Carve-outs, Spin-offs, and Split-offs
Co-investments
Consumer Venture Capital Investors
Cross-border Mergers andAcquisitions
Emerging Companies
Exits
Financial Venture Capital Investors

We work closely with our investment fund lawyers onsecondary transactions and they also advise sponsors
and investors on fund formation and fund investments.
Our fund formation team provides the legal supportand 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
Ventiga Capital Partners on its sale of Infare, a premierprovider of competitor air travel data, to OAG, a leading
data platform for the global travel industry, in a dealvaluing the combined entity at over US$500m.
Tikehau Capital on its investment in Phast Invest, theholding company of the Prodware Group.
Wendel on its €965m acquisition of the Scalian group,a leading European engineering consulting firm indigital transformation, project management, andoperational performance.
KSL Capital Partners on its acquisition of a majority
stake in Sereno Hotels, the owner-operator of the ultraluxury hotels Il Sereno in Lake Como, Italy, and Le
Sereno on the Caribbean island of St. Barthelemy.
Activa Capital on the sale of its stake in the ExploreGroup, a leading provider of construction andcommercial project tender information, to Intescia.
Bencis on the sale of Ceban Pharmaceuticals B.V., theDutch market leader in compounding, to Frankfurt
stock exchange listed Medios, the leading provider ofSpecialty Pharma Solutions in Germany.
Mountaingate Capital on its strategic investment inglobal customer experience and loyalty management
firm, Bond.

FinTech Venture CapitalFund FinanceInitial Public Offerings
Life Sciences and Health Care
Venture Capital Investors
Management TeamsManagement Incentive Plans
Real Estate Private Equity
Secondaries
Sovereign Investors
Sovereign WealthStrategic / Corporate Venture
Capital Investors
Sustainable Finance & Investment
Technology Venture Capital
Investors

Related practices
Investment Funds
Leveraged and Acquisition Finance
Mergers and Acquisitions
TaxVenture Capital and Emerging
Companies

Equitix on the acquisition of a sustainability portfolio
from Enpal.
Tikehau Capital on its acquisition of a majority stake in
CReators of the Outside WorlD (CROWD), a panEuropean leading provider of cycling infrastructure andsustainable street furniture, from Convent Capital.
Accel-KKR and its portfolio company Reapit on its
acquisition of Inspect Real Estate Holdings Pty Ltd, aprovider of workflow productivity software for the realestate industry.
Navis Capital Partners on the sale of its entire interest
in TES-Envirocorp to SK ecoplant for an enterprisevalue of US$1bn.
Quadriga Capital on investments in medium-sized
growth companies in the DACH region across healthcare, tech-enabled services, and smart industries, andon its investment in ETERNA Mode GmbH.
Oaktree Capital Management on its disposal of Saloro
S.L.U., one of the largest tungsten mines in Spain, to EQ
Resources Limited, an ASX-listed miner in Australia.

Awards and rankings
Top 10 by volume for European buyouts,
Mergermarket, 2023
Hogan Lovells is admired for its wide-ranging
expertise, servicing numerous sectors including
healthcare, energy, infrastructure, financial services
and TMT., Chambers UK, 2024
Acts for a broad spectrum of private equity houses
and alternative asset managers, including specialist
investors, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds.
The group is noted for its strength in cross-bordertransactions, with experience in the U.S., EMEA andAsian markets., Chambers UK, 2024“…robust knowledge of the industry.”, USA,Chambers Global, 2023

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