Practice Groups
Our London office advises on matters in the following practice areas. There is a strong focus on work originated in the London office, albeit with a frequent need for cross office engagement given the cross border nature of almost everything we do.
M&A transactions, Including Private Equity and Special Situations
with more than 135 high-yield debt offerings (with a total transactional value exceeding US$70.3 billion) completed in the last five years.
Our London M&A team advise private equity funds, special situations investors and other alternative capital investors in their cross border equity investments across a range of industries. Recent experience has involved financial asset and NPL acquisitions and investments in the renewable energy and infrastructure industries, with a particular focus on telecommunications. The team has considerable expertise in relation to investments across continental Europe, and includes lawyers who are qualified in France and Spain, as well as lawyers who speak Spanish, German, Italian and French.
Energy Transactions and Projects
Our London energy team has a global practice, with particular experience in advising on energy transactions and projects across Africa, the middle East, Latin America and central Asia. The practice advises on the construction, development and financing of major projects around the world, many such projects are in the energy sector, and in particular the downstream and petrochemicals sector. This area of the practice has a particular specialism advising state-owned companies including State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic and Uzbekneftegaz, and has a market-leading position in the CIS region. The team also has a market-leading position advising on energy M&A activity across the globe. The majority of the team’s M&A work relates to upstream projects, but they also have experience in relation to power, downstream, midstream and oilfield services transactions. Globally, V&E has advised on more energy M&A transactions (by deal count and value) than any other law firm since 2005, according to Mergermarket 1 .
Capital Markets
The capital markets team advise both banks and sponsors/corporates on a wide range of capital market’s issuance. They operate across a range of sectors, with a market leading position in relation to oil and gas high-yield offerings and other offerings in the natural resources and infrastructure sectors. Our London team has represented both the issuers and underwriters in high-yield debt offerings since the inception of the high-yield market,
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