Private Equity

Comprehensive Private Equity Capabilities

V&E represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a broad range of transactions in every phase of the investment life cycle, including:

• Fund formation and fundraising
• Management team placements
• Growth equity transactions
• Acquisitions, investments, and dispositions
• Leveraged buyouts and going private transactions
• Carve-outs
• Line of equity commitments
• Mezzanine finance
• Distressed investments
• Joint ventures
• Exits, including IPOs

The Private Equity team seamlessly integrates with the firm’s leading Capital Markets and Finance practices, helping our clients efficiently access both public and private sources of debt and equity capital. V&E clients also benefit from access to our other internationally recognized specialty practices, such as Tax, Regulatory, and Environmental.

Energy Private Equity Innovator

V&E has a world-class reputation in energy and is a leader in energy private equity, including renewable energy. The firm represents many leading energy-focused private equity sponsors and generalist buyout firms on their energy investments. V&E’s Private Equity lawyers pioneered the line of equity commitment structure in the energy space, and have been involved in some of the most complex, high-value leveraged buyouts in the industry. Over the past five years the firm ranks NUMBER ONE in Mergermarket’s league tables for global energy private equity transactions by volume.