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LONDON
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Claire McDaid
Work Department
Corporate & Financial Services
Position
Claire McDaid is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group in London. She focuses on private equity and corporate M&A transactions, advising principally financial sponsors, family offices, corporates and strategic investors on a variety of cross-border investment transactions, including leveraged buyouts, complex carve-outs, club deals, growth equity, recapitalisations and liquidity transactions. Claire has particular experience in the distressed and turnaround sphere, advising a variety of stakeholders in such transactions across Europe.
Education
London Business School, Executive Corporate Finance Course, 2006; College of Law, PGLP, 2002; University of Edinburgh, LLB (Hons), 1999
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
A ‘broad team with diverse expertise’, Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP
draws on its strong European platform as it works with multinational sponsors and their portfolio companies, handling a significant volume of complex public and private M&A. Team head Gavin Gordon has an established transactional practice with a recent strong track record in big-ticket take-privates and leveraged buyouts. Claire McDaid acts for a trusted pool of clients in domestic and cross-border transactions, handling private M&A, growth equity, recapitilisations, and distressed deals. David Arnold and Andrew Gray are lauded as ‘exceptional’; the duo are chiefly noted for their skill in European and North American buyouts, M&A, divestments, restructurings and capital raises. Philip Coletto is often called upon by some of the firm’s largest PE clients, especially concerning deals in the financial services and tech sectors.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
Firm Rankings
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Finance > High yield
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium