Arnold & Porter

The team at Arnold & Porter has longstanding experience guiding both domestic as well as Canadian and European private equity funds through their entire transactional life cycles, with an integrated team capable of handling the financing and M&A aspects of platform acquisitions, add-on transactions, and exits. In New York, capital markets and M&A expert Stephen Koval and life sciences specialist Lowell Dashefsky jointly head up a practice which particularly in handling PE-backed transactions in regulated industries, including national security and financial services. Washington DC contacts include Andrew Varner, who is noted for his cross-border expertise, and Matthew Owens, who primarily advises sponsors on investments in the tech and government contracting spaces. San Francisco lawyer Edward Deibert handles both private equity and venture capital transactions.