Leveraging its global international network and full-service offering, the ‘very professional and knowledgeable’ team at Clifford Chance provides ’pragmatic, efficient and business-focused advice’ to a variety of major sponsors, including Permira, Cinven and Partners Group, on high-profile multi-jurisdictional transactions on both the buy and sell side. Appreciated for her ‘ability to think outside-the-box’, dual Luxembourg and UK-qualified partner Saskia Myners has ’a sound knowledge of the market and its actors’, working on large-scale LBO transactions as well as growth finance mandates. Christian Kremer and Katia Gauzès co-head the overarching corporate team, with Gauzès recently active on a number of major energy-related transactions for private equity sponsors.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The team is very professional and knowledgeable.’

  • 'The team provides pragmatic, efficient and business-focussed advice.'

  • ‘Saskia Myners is close to her clients, dedicated and thinks outside of the box.'

  • 'Saskia Myners gets things done and has a sound knowledge of the market and its actors. She has her clients' interests at heart and with her no-nonsense approach provides the steadfast support needed in complex transactions.’

Key clients

  • Global Infrastructure Partners
  • Bayerische Versorgungskammer
  • Permira
  • TPG Rise Climate
  • Actis
  • Stirling Square Capital
  • EQT
  • Prologis
  • HG Capital
  • KKR
  • Blackrock
  • CVC Capital Partners
  • Cinven
  • Partners Group

Work highlights

  • Advised Stirling Square Capital Partners, a leading pan-European mid-market private equity firm, on an agreement with Eurofins Scientific to acquire Eurofins Digital Testing in a primary transaction.
  • Advising a consortium led by KKR and also consisting of Teslin on the public offer for all of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares in Accell Group.
  • Advised Partners Group on its recent transaction to increase its equity stake in Swiss watchmaker Breitling.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Katia Gauzès, Christian Kremer

Other key lawyers

Saskia Myners, Oliver Zwick, Paul Van den Abeele, Emmanuel-Frédéric Henrion, Kristof Meynaerts, Maren Stadler-Tjan, Sascha Nolte, Dunja Pralong-Damjanovic, Judit Stern, Simone Schmitt, Lauren Harris, Christian Lennig, Bart Denys, Peter Audesirk, Severina Käppeli, Louis Mamère, Frédérique Davister, Mélissa Kdyem, Nina Aymé, Megi Bllaca, Konrad Kanaan