McGuireWoods London LLP

McGuireWoods is an international law firm recognised for its commitment to quality, innovation, responsiveness, and diversity. The firm employs 1,100 attorneys across 21 locations, including London, New York, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and Chicago. It has earned a reputation among clients and peers as one of the most client service–oriented law firms globally. McGuireWoods London LLP distinguishes itself through partner-led service and strong cross-border relationships.

The firm’s practice areas cover a broad spectrum of legal services. Its banking and finance team advises financial institutions and borrowers on a wide range of debt finance transactions, including syndicated and bilateral credit facilities, real estate finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, asset finance, and infrastructure and project finance. The team also provides guidance on leveraged finance transactions across Europe and the United States, including unitranche, super senior, term loan B, second lien, and mezzanine finance.

In corporate law, the firm offers counsel on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, commercial contracts, general corporate matters, supply chain, and corporate reorganisations. The private equity practice supports sponsors, management teams, and portfolio companies, particularly in the healthcare, senior living, hospitality, retail, and technology sectors.

The data privacy and security team assists clients with GDPR compliance, information governance, cross-border data transfers, drafting data processing agreements, managing data subject access requests, and handling data incidents. The employment practice advises UK and global corporate clients on complex and strategic employment matters, including restrictive covenant disputes, whistleblowing, discrimination, corporate reorganisations, restructures, and boardroom terminations, with growing expertise in cross-border issues.

The equity capital markets team represents sponsors, NOMADS, brokers, and issuers in IPOs, secondary placings, reverse takeovers, Listing Rules and AIM Rules compliance, corporate governance, disclosure obligations, market abuse regulations, prospectus rules, and financial promotions. Litigation and dispute resolution capabilities encompass complex commercial disputes, high-profile cases, fraud allegations, contractual and joint-venture disputes, banking, swaps and derivatives, energy, insolvency, intellectual property, trade secrets, and shareholder disputes.

In real estate, the firm advises clients on acquisitions, development, management, finance, and disposal, covering institutional investors, multinationals, growing corporates, developers, and financial institutions. Its EU and UK competition law practice addresses merger control, state aid, cartels, licensing, distribution, IP matters, abuse of dominance, compliance programmes, audits, and litigation before courts and regulators. The financial crime team represents corporates and executives in complex, multijurisdictional investigations and enforcement actions, including those led by the SFO, HMRC, FCA, City of London Police, NCA, and US authorities, and provides guidance on bribery, corruption, money laundering, insider dealing, and other financial criminal matters.

Staffing:

• 11 UK partners
• 1,100 attorneys worldwide

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