Private Equity
Our global private equity group has grown and evolved alongside our clients since the birth of the industry in the 1980s, and today we have one of the most dynamic, first-rate private equity practices in the world. What distinguishes Paul, Weiss is the quality of our full-service private equity offering—from our league table-topping M&A and debt finance teams to our world-class fund formation specialists and everything in between, no other law firm pairs our deep market knowledge with boutique client service. With offices in every major financial center across the globe, we offer tailored, informed advice across jurisdictions and time zones.
Paul, Weiss has developed and invested in the best legal talent across all specializations and facets of the private equity industry, allowing us to move the market instead of merely reacting to it. Today, eight of the top 10 largest, most sophisticated private equity firms in the world rely on Paul, Weiss to deliver cohesive and commercial advice on their most strategic and transformative matters, and we leverage decades of experience to strategically guide middle-market and emerging managers into the next phase of their business. Our private equity clients across all sizes and strategies count on Paul, Weiss to provide innovative, informed solutions from end-to-end.
“One of the most preeminent private equity practices in the world – I would put them up against any firm globally on the most complex matters.”
- Chambers USA
Recent
Experience
Recognition
Law360: Private Equity Group of the Year
- Private equity M&A, private equity fund formation, finance and tax consistently rank top of the charts in Chambers USA, Chambers UK, Legal 500 Global and IFLR1000
- Private Equity International: “Law Firm of the Year” in 2025
- Bloomberg Law: among Top Firms Leading 2024’s Biggest PE Deals In Big Law
Recent Engagements
Our private equity client list is diverse and expansive. We have advised hundreds of private equity managers across complex M&A, fund formation, finance and litigation matters, including:
- 3G Capital
- Altor Equity Partners
- Apollo Global Management
- Ares Capital
- Bain Capital
- BC Partners
- Berkshire Partners
- Blackstone
- Brighton Park Capital
- Brookfield
- Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
- The Carlyle Group
- Centerbridge
- Charlesbank Capital Partners
- CI Capital Partners
- Clarion Capital Partners
- Clearlake Capital Group
- Crestview Partners
- D1 Capital Partners
- Davidson Kempner Capital Management
- Declaration Partners
- EagleTree
- EQT
- FalconPoint Partners
- Five Arrows
- Flexpoint Ford
- Francisco Partners
- Gamut Capital Management
- General Atlantic
- Global Infrastructure Partners
- Golden Gate Capital
- Grain Management
- Hg Capital
- H.I.G. Capital
- HPS Investment Partners
- I Squared Capital
- Investindustrial
- KKR
- Kohlberg & Co.
- KPS Capital Partners
- L Catterton
- Liberty Strategic Capital
- Lone View Capital
- Madison Dearborn Partners
- Oak Hill Capital
- Oakley Capital
- OceanSound Partners
- Palladium Equity Partners
- Roark Capital
- Sagewind Capital
- Searchlight Capital Partners
- Stellex Capital
- Strategic Value Partners
- Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners
- Stone Point Capital
- TDR Capital
- THL
- Towerbrook
- TPG
- Trivest Partners
- Vitruvian Partners
- Warburg Pincus
- Wellspring Capital Management
