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Private Equity

Levenfeld Pearlstein’s private equity team represents private equity funds, independent sponsors, family offices, and other investors across a wide range of transactions valued from under $10M to over $500M.

We are experienced transactional attorneys who understand the unique challenges and opportunities that sponsors face, and we pride ourselves on providing practical and commercial advice, innovative solutions, market knowledge, and unparalleled client service. In addition to delivering strategic legal advice throughout the lifecycle of a transaction, LP’s private equity team and the firm’s breadth of specialists continue to serve as outside general counsel to many of our clients’ portfolio companies.

Why Private Equity Clients Choose Levenfeld Pearlstein

Comprehensive Experience and Service

  • Our multidisciplinary team has extensive experience structuring, negotiating, and executing all aspects of private equity transactions across multiple industries nationally.
  • We work collaboratively across practice groups with attorneys experienced in corporate, tax, debt financing, labor and employment, ERISA, executive compensation and employee benefits, intellectual property, data privacy and security, real estate, bankruptcy, litigation, and other disciplines that are directly relevant to the deal to ensure clients have access to all the expertise they need.

Customized and Practical Advice

  • We combine the expertise, sophistication, and resources of a large firm with the partner-level attention, collaborative teams, and agile execution of a mid-sized firm.
  • We tailor our advice and counseling to meet our clients’ specific business objectives and risk tolerance.
  • Our sponsor clients tell us that they value our practical, business-focused approach to transactions while delivering the responsiveness, expertise, and market knowledge that they expect in their M&A counsel.

Effective and Efficient Deal Management

  • We focus on results and work to get the deal done on our clients’ schedule and terms.
  • We prepare scopes of work and estimated budgets for each transaction, with regular updates and checkpoints that keep our clients informed, align expectations, and avoid surprises.
  • LP has invested significant resources in process efficiency and has developed proprietary project management tools and systems that help our team manage transactions efficiently and effectively.

Portfolio Company Services

  • To add value, maximize continuity, and leverage institutional knowledge, we continue to serve as outside general counsel to our clients’ portfolio companies post transaction. Our lawyers provide day-to-day general counseling to help clients understand and solve complex legal, tax, and business issues.
    • Our services include:
      • Mergers and Acquisitions
      • Capital Raises
      • General Corporate Services
      • Tax
      • Financing & Restructuring
      • Real Estate
      • Labor, Employment, Pension, and Employee Benefits
      • Intellectual Property
      • Commercial Litigation
      • Environmental
      • Data Privacy and Security

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Your LP Contact

Michael St. Peter
Partner,
Corporate
mstpeter@lplegal.com