Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton’s private equity practice is active across middle-market and bulge-bracket transactions, especially in the tech, aerospace, and healthcare sectors, and is noted for its ability to facilitate complexly structured club deals, cash-and-stock acquisitions, and cross-border transactions. The team regularly acts as counsel to Warburg Pincus and its portfolio companies in connection with impactful platform and add-on acquisitions as well as high-value exits, and it also advises a series of sovereign wealth funds and other asset managers on their cross-border investment activities. M&A and corporate governance expert David Leinwand leads the New York-based team, which is also home to ‘intelligent, efficient, thoughtful, and responsive’ cross-border M&A specialist John Kupiec as well as Paul Shim, who maintains close relationships with an array of sovereign wealth clients. Further key contacts include Matthew Salerno, who leads on a large volume of high-value PE-backed investments, and Paul Imperatore, who handles both private equity and venture capital transactions.