Our firm has been a leading adviser on private equity fund formation matters since the sector’s earliest stages in the mid-1980s. Because we have deep experience across all aspects of the private equity spectrum, we have unusually keen insight into the needs and optimal strategies for our clients in this area, which include leading stand-alone firms, as well as the private equity groups within a number of the world’s largest banks. We have significant experience in structuring and organizing employee securities companies.

• We ranked among the top law firms nationwide in private equity fund formation and was one of only five firms recommended for commercial awareness in the category, according to Chambers USA 2011. “An extremely impressive team; it has a no-nonsense approach and provides very practical advice.”
  
  
• Clients praise our private funds practice: “Clients label Davis Polk ‘one of a small number of firms we entrust with high-value transactions.’” Legal 500 U.S. 2011