About Reed Smith LLP
Reed Smith LLP is listed for its private equity and middle-market M&A bench. The team works for private equity sponsors ranging from large-cap funds to middle-market and lower-middle-market investors, and for independent sponsors, on leveraged buyouts, growth investments, add-on acquisitions, and management buyouts. It also builds investment platforms, forms joint ventures, and handles asset sales for those clients. The bench stays with a fund from its formation through recapitalizations, dispositions, and the eventual exit, and it brings in the firm's tax, benefits, regulatory, and leveraged finance lawyers when a deal calls for them. Its sponsor clients buy and sell businesses in consumer brands and retail, industrials and manufacturing, technology, health care, entertainment and media, energy, and shipping, and the team carries each of those purchases and sales through to closing.
Who is a good fit for Reed Smith LLP
- Private equity sponsors pursuing a leveraged buyout or a growth investment.
- Independent sponsors structuring an add-on acquisition.
- Middle-market and lower-middle-market sponsors adding a business to an existing platform.