Hall of Fame

The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.

Steven Davis

Steven Davis

Hall of fameProskauer Rose LLP

Steven Davis is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department, co-head of its global Private Equity and M&A Group and co-head of the London office. Steven’s practice focuses on buyouts, buy-ins, and strategic mergers & acquisitions. He has considerable industry knowledge in the consumer, retail, financial, business services, sports and healthcare sectors, and has advised a broad range of clients, including private equity sponsors, management teams, financial institutions and public and private companies.

Matthew Elliott

Hall of fameKirkland & Ellis LLP

Matthew is a corporate partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. His practice focuses on private equity and real estate, advising a full range of stakeholders across public and private corporate transactions, M&A, joint ventures and securities offerings.

Adrian Maguire

Adrian Maguire

Hall of fameKirkland & Ellis LLP

Adrian Maguire is a corporate partner in Kirkland’s London office. He focuses on advising financial investor clients on all aspects of their investments, from initial acquisition, through to ultimate exit, whether by way of a sale or IPO.

Adam Signy

Hall of fameSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Rising stars

Rising stars with regular involvement in their team's key work, and recognition from peers or clients as being ones to watch.

Next Generation Partners

Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Leading individuals

The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Stuart Boyd

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Stuart Boyd is a corporate partner advising private equity houses and financial sponsor clients on all manner of cross border leveraged transactions, including private acquisitions, take-privates, carve-outs, consortium deals, distressed acquisitions and exits. Stuart has advised on deals for numerous sponsors, including The Carlyle Group, Hg Capital, BC Partners, Bridgepoint, Rhône Capital and Silver Lake.

Alex Edmondson

Alex Edmondson

Macfarlanes LLP

Alex is head of the firm’s private equity practice and specialises in advising private equity clients on buyouts, management incentivisation and sales processes. He also has extensive experience of advising on asset manager M&A, private company M&A and general advisory matters. Alex has sector expertise in several areas, including in particular the technology sector and co-heads the firm’s cross-departmental technology practice group, advising companies, founders and investors.

Tracey Lochhead

Linklaters LLP

Tracey is a corporate partner who advises on a wide range of corporate, corporate finance and commercial matters across various sectors but with a focus on the bank and financial services sector. She acts for private equity houses, banks and corporate on public and private mergers and acquisitions, loan portfolio sales, corporate restructurings and joint ventures as well as equity capital market transactions. Tracey’s experience includes advising Cerberus on its acquisition of the Northern Rock entity and £13bn of mortgages; Investec of the sale of its UK mortgage business Kensington Group, together with other mortgage assets, to funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Advisors and TPG Special Situations Partners; and Glencore on its merger with Xstrata.

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