Private Equity Associate

Company Description

Who we are

We are one of the largest international law firms in the world. With over 30 offices across the globe, we strive to exceed the expectations of our clients, providing them with the highest-quality advice and legal insight, which combines the firm’s global standards with in-depth local expertise.

Our firm, work and people span jurisdictions, cultures, and languages. We offer our clients a truly international perspective. We believe every career should be rewarding and stimulating - full of opportunities to learn, thrive, and grow. That’s why we’re so proud of our inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.

Our one firm global strategy is focused on targeted growth led by the needs of our core clients, those who we can best support with the breadth and depth of Clifford Chance expertise, across the sectors and geographies, which matter most to them.

You’ll find our clients in commercial and industrial sectors, the financial investor community, governments, regulators, trade bodies, and not-for-profit organisations. But no matter who they are or why they’ve reached out to us, we provide a world‑class service every step of the way. And that’s possible thanks to the entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach to work that you’ll find across all of our teams.

Whichever area of the business you join, you’ll become an integral part an innovative, diverse and ambitious team of people. Clifford Chance is a place where the brightest minds and the best of colleagues meet.

The role

Our growing global Private Equity group lies at the heart of the Firm's business strategy and, in London, the group sits at the hub of our Corporate practice. It offers unparalleled opportunities to work on the most high-profile and market-leading mandates. The group advises an impressive range of clients, covering a wide variety of financial sponsors (including many leading international private equity houses, infrastructure and other investment funds, banks and other financial institutions), their portfolio companies and management teams.

The group is supported by the Firm's integrated network of offices (providing the largest geographic coverage of any single law firm) as well as expertise in other key complementary practice areas (including acquisition finance, capital markets, funds and regulatory) and industry sectors to offer clients unrivalled strength and depth of resource.

Our global team is best known for our capacity to lead on PE transactions of any nature and anywhere in the world. Having been leaders in PE since its inception 40 years ago and with over 700 private equity lawyers across our offices, the diversity of our clients and product areas, the geographies we work in, and our wider industry knowledge gives us a global perspective on private equity trends and issues.

We continue to be recognised by leading industry bodies for our market leading work with some of the largest global PE houses choosing to repeatedly work with us.

Since January 2025, the PE group have advised on 40 deals across 17 countries with a total value of US $74 billion.

• CVC Capital Partners and Cinven on the sale of New Day's portfolio of consumer credit receivables to private credit funds and accounts managed by KKR
• Blackstone on the minority stake in Property Finder
• TPG Rise Climate in relation to a further investment in TPG’s portfolio company Enpal.
• Permira on the acquisition of a minority interest in Property Finder, the Zoopla of the UAE
• Partners Group on the sale of their investment in GREENLINK to a consortium of Equitix and Baltic Cable, valuing the asset at over EUR 1bn.
• Daisy Group on their merger with Virgin Media O2's B2B business to create a new joint venture with annual pro forma revenue of GBP 1.4 billion.
• Cinven on their acquisition of Smart Communications
• A consortium comprising Black Rock, Goldman Sachs and Mubadala on its sale of a majority stake in the Calisen Group
• KKR on the provision of financing to Cap Vest in support of its potential acquisition of Stada, valued at EUR 10 billion and on its exit from PT Nippon Indosari Corpindo Tbk (Sari Roti) to Leafgreen Capital and…