law firms

Creating a culture where women feel valued is key to improving gender diversity in secondaries, says Akin Gump’s Mary Lavelle.

The international law firm has made seven growth hires into the group since December.

The firm's European investment funds group has hired a partner with GP-led fund restructuring experience to its Paris office, the unit's hire in France.

A snapshot of law firms’ secondaries work last year by volume, deal count, strategy and more in our latest annual report.

The move comes after the law firm promoted two of its professionals, whose work includes secondaries, in January.

The sheer scale of GP-led secondaries is enormous. But with turnover still marginal, the LP side is also poised for exponential growth.

The law firm has promoted Ed Ford, who in the last year has advised on GP-led transactions worth billions in transaction value, to bolster its secondaries capabilities.

Whitehorse, Morningside, MJ Hudson and Proskauer Rose are among the firms represented on affiliate title PEI’s list of most impressive people under 40.

May sees the publication of our surveys of secondaries advisors and legal activities in 2020. Here are some early findings.

The law firm has been growing its PE funds team, which advised on 150 secondaries deals worth $17.5bn in 2019.