As a firm that has been representing clients in the energy sector for over 145 years, our private equity team is well equipped to advise clients on their largest and most complex transactions across the entire oil and gas value chain, including in cutting-edge transactions in the upstream, midstream, downstream, commodities trading and marketing, infrastructure and oilfield services sectors.

Reed Smith works at the center of the industry, helping clients navigate through legal issues in the modern music world. Our deep bench strength and diversity of experience, coupled with our global platform, make us a leading law firm for all music-related transactions.

Our firm represents some of the most prolific companies in the music industry. As a result, we have negotiated and advised on a large number of high-profile transactions of material value over the past several years. Music is at the heart of our private equity and M&A practice.

As a fund manager, you likely face an array of different, and often competing, global regulations. Reed Smith’s fund management regulatory team has vast experience advising fund managers on a wide range of regulatory matters that affect the industry, including registrations, regulatory filings and disclosures, management policies and procedures, conflicts, examination, and enforcement on a global basis.

Fund managers of all sizes face a growing array of different, and often competing, global regulations. The compliance burden for investment managers and their private fund clients, in particular, has increased substantially and will continue to grow going forward. Accordingly, CCOs and general counsels for fund managers face an ever-growing workload to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

As one of the largest and fastest-growing segments of the private equity market, the health care industry is ripe with opportunity for private equity funds that are able to navigate the complex regulatory issues involved with these types of investments.

As one of the world’s leading law firms with a historic practice in health care and life sciences, we can guide clients through deals of varying sizes and complexity and through each phase of the investment life cycle with a keen understanding of the complex, dated, or underdeveloped regulatory frameworks affecting each sector of the industry. We bring together market-leading private equity and subject-matter health care teams to assist our private equity clients and their portfolio companies with their most strategic transactions around the world. This has allowed our team to be at the forefront of developing innovative partnerships, structures, and transactions that align with the future of the health care industry and help our clients achieve their strategic and financial goals.

At Reed Smith, we can provide you with assistance and guidance on a wide variety of financial issues, including regulatory matters, establishing or reorganizing funds, product development, transactional work, internal training, and other investment management-related work.

Our international investment management lawyers are authorities in handling regulatory, investment advisory, distribution and sales, insurance products, private/hedge funds compliance, securities, financial services, transactional, banking, corporate, fiduciary, and tax matters.

Private credit and non-bank lending have rapidly increased, particularly over the last decade, providing borrowers and investors with easier-to-access liquidity to grow their businesses. This shift in the lending market has led to opportunities for alternative lenders, such as direct lending funds, distressed credit funds, alternative capital providers, and challenger banks, in terms of providing credit to their clients, while also allowing borrowers easier access to liquidity to achieve their investment objectives.

Our dedicated private credit practice advises both lenders and borrowers, providing bespoke financing solutions in this rapidly developing landscape. We advise on finding the right capital structure and financing terms for their investment strategies, assessing the structure, and identifying opportunities for alternative lenders to capitalize on their lending businesses.

Our sponsor finance team is recognized as a leader in the middle market. Acting as a one-stop financing shop with a global market-leading team, we leverage our sophisticated market insight to advise dozens of the most active private equity funds and their portfolio companies in a wide range of financing transactions including:

• Leveraged buyouts and acquisition financings
• Working capital financings/refinancings
• Growth equity financings
• Subordinated and mezzanine facilities
• Asset-based loans
• Syndicated credit facilities
• Bridge loans
• Loan workouts and restructurings

We lead the market in representing private equity funds, multi-strategy alternative investors, sovereign wealth and pension funds, and their respective portfolio companies in the transportation sector. Our deep bench of transportation focused lawyers advise clients on market terms, transaction structures and investment strategies (including secondaries and co-investments) catered to each client’s individual strategy and risk profile. Our diversity of geographies and industry expertise provides us with a global perspective on developing private equity trends and issues in the sector, which allows us to better serve our clients.