Private Equity Senior Associate

The role Our growing global Private Equity group lies at the heart of the Firm's business strategy, in London. It offers unparalleled opportunities to work on the most high-profile and market-leading mandates.  The group advises an impressive range of clients, covering a wide variety of financial sponsors (including many leading international private equity houses, infrastructure and other investment funds, banks and other financial institutions), their portfolio companies and management teams. The group is supported by the Firm's integrated network of offices (providing the largest geographic coverage of any single law firm) as well as expertise in other key complementary practice areas (including acquisition finance, capital markets, funds and regulatory) and industry sectors to offer clients unrivalled strength and depth of resource.   Our global team is best known for our capacity to lead on PE transactions of any nature and anywhere in the world. Having been leaders in PE since its inception 40 years ago and with over 700 private equity lawyers across our offices, the diversity of our clients and product areas, the geographies we work in, and our wider industry knowledge gives us a global perspective on private equity trends and issues.  We continue to be recognised by leading industry bodies for our market leading work with some of the largest global PE houses choosing to repeatedly work with us.  Recent deals the private equity team have worked on • EE Capital as Fenway Sports Group agrees strategic minority investment in Liverpool Football Club. • Partners Group on the sale of atNorth. • Blackstone, Brookfield and KKR on their US$ 16.0 billion infrastructure partnership with Kuwait Oil Company. • Sixth Street's Bay Collective on acquisition of Sunderland AFC Women. • Permira on its strategic investment in Quadrante. • Cinven and La Caisse on the joint acquisition of leading specialty MGA platform, Optio. • 3i Infrastructure on the sale of TCR to GIP and on the investment in Lefdal Mine Datacenter. • Vitruvian Partners on its strategic investment in ASR • Partners Group on sale of Greenlink electricity. Interconnector. • Permira on a $525 million strategic investment led by the Permira funds in Property Finder. • Antin Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of NorthC Datacentres. • EQT on the EUR 725m IPO of HBX Group International ("Hotelbeds") on the Spanish stock exchange. • Partners Group on the acquisition of Premium Pet Food Company MPM Products from 3i. • KKR on acquisition of Techone. • TPG Rise Climate on its acquisition of Aurora Energy Research. • CVC and Cinven on the agreed sale of NewDay’s portfolio of consumer credit receivables. • Permira on the P2P of JTC Group​. • Cinven on the acquisition of Smart Communications. • Ardian on the acquisition of a further 10% stake in Heathrow Airport. • Blackstone on the sale of Dutch bank NIBC to ABN Amro. Recent Awards and accolades include • Band 1 for Private Equity in Chambers UK, Europe and Global 2026. • Tier 1 for Private Equity Legal 500 UK and Worldwide 2026. • Recognised as the leading legal adviser in Q1 2026, ranking high in both European and U.K. M&A advisory roles. according to LSEG data. The highest-ranking non-US firm by deal value, handling roughly USD91.7bn in announced deals • 9 winning deals at the 2026 IJGlobal Awards. • Shortlisted for 'PE team of the year' in this year's Legal Business Awards for the Cinven and CVC’s sale of NewDay.   Who you will work with The lawyers in our Private Equity group are at the centre of market leading transactions, not only as legal advisers but working closely with clients at a strategic and business level. The entrepreneurial nature of the Private Equity deals that we work on requires