Linklaters LLP

Linklaters LLP is a leading global law firm that supports clients in achieving their strategic objectives across both emerging and developed markets worldwide. Leveraging its extensive expertise and resources, the firm assists clients in pursuing opportunities and managing risk in a broad range of industries and jurisdictions.

The firm’s practice areas include banking, with comprehensive experience in acquisition and leveraged finance, bilateral and syndicated credit facilities, financial structuring, high-yield, real estate finance, trade and emerging markets finance, and asset finance. Its capital markets practice covers international debt, equity, equity-linked, regulatory capital, liability management, high-yield, derivatives, and structured financings.

Linklaters provides competition and antitrust advice, including merger control, cartel investigations, abuse of dominance, market inquiries, state aid, public procurement, utility regulation, damages litigation in the UK, and litigation before EU courts, supported by specialist lawyers in key jurisdictions across Europe, the US, and Asia. Its corporate and M&A team advises on complex cross-border M&A, major listings on global stock exchanges, joint ventures, restructuring, privatisations, and finance and commercial transactions.

The firm’s corporate tax team offers expertise across transactional (private equity), structured finance, international tax planning, contentious matters, real estate, and investment funds. Employment and incentives services combine advisory, transactional, and contentious support, covering regulatory investigations, restructurings, redundancies, governance, board and senior executive appointments, terminations, disputes, and global share plan design and administration.

Linklaters also advises on environmental and climate change regulation, carbon trading, sustainability, governance, allocation of environmental assets and risks in M&A, project finance, funds, and real estate, as well as regulatory and environmental dispute resolution. Its financial regulation practice supports banks, asset managers, private equity houses, insurers, exchanges, trading platforms, clearing houses, and other financial institutions in compliance, risk management, and regulatory investigations globally.

The firm’s insurance practice encompasses M&A, demutualisations, reorganisations, portfolio transfers, reinsurance, bancassurance, complex capital markets transactions, and regulatory matters. Intellectual property services cover both contentious and non-contentious IP issues. The investment management team advises sponsors and investors on fund structuring, formation, taxation, regulation, and the establishment and operation of asset managers.

Linklaters provides extensive litigation, arbitration, and investigations services, including crisis management, banking, derivatives and structured products disputes, regulatory investigations, sanctions, fraud and white-collar crime, global cartel investigations, competition and antitrust litigation, insolvency disputes, contentious tax, energy and infrastructure disputes, BIT and international commercial arbitrations, and property litigation. Its pensions practice advises trustees and corporates on funding solutions, regulatory compliance, governance, and investment matters.

Private equity services cover all aspects of fund establishment and advising on leveraged transactions, private acquisitions, take-privates, carve-outs, consortium deals, distressed acquisitions, and private sale and IPO exits. The projects team advises on project financings in energy and infrastructure sectors, including oil and gas, petrochemical, power, renewables, telecoms, mining, water, PPP/PFI, and related investment vehicles, hybrid and structured financing, and refinancing. Real estate expertise spans investment, development, M&A, finance, tax, funds, environment, planning, and disputes.

The firm’s restructuring and insolvency practice provides guidance across stressed and distressed situations, including balance sheet restructurings, debt and equity capital raising, secondary investments, liquidity management, distressed M&A, investigations, asset tracing, insolvency litigation, formal insolvency procedures, and contingency planning. Its TMT practice offers commercial and regulatory advice on outsourcing, data protection, IT, e-commerce, telecoms, media, and broadcasting.

Staffing:

• Partners: 535
• Lawyers: 2,390

Website: www.linklaters.com