Advised on the Secondaries Deal of the Year (CD&R / Belron)
—Buyouts Magazine Awards, 2022
Ranked as a leading law firm for global-wide capabilities in Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation by Chambers Global (2024). Also ranked as a Band 1 firm in the U.S. for Investment Funds & Asset Management (International & Cross-Border).
[The] level of dedication and seamless service from them is truly impressive.
Debevoise has strong global presence and is able to create a seamless global team.
Debevoise has tremendous experience in the private funds space. They’ve seen pretty much every issue we encounter and know how to solve it.
—Chambers Global, 2021-2024
Ranked as a leading firm in the UK for Private Funds and Private Equity Transactions.
“The team is commercial, committed, available, responsive and pro-active.”
“Market leading, unequaled credentials and authority.”
“Very strong secondary private equity capabilities, able to give best-in-class advice on structuring all type of complex secondary deals.”
—The Legal 500 UK, 2021-2024
Ranked as a leading law firm in the UK for Investment Funds: Private Equity.
“Debevoise & Plimpton offers exceptional quality.”
“A solid firm in the private funds and secondaries space.”
—Chambers UK, 2024
The team offers “best-in-class advice.”
Fantastic, very commercially savvy; they know this market inside-out.
Ranked as a top-tier firm by both Chambers USA (2023) and The Legal 500 US (2023) for Private Equity Fund Formation.
The team's abilities are first rate, they excel at analyzing complex matters and breaking them down into easily digestible components.
The Debevoise team is client-focused, very helpful, smart and knowledgeable.
In terms of client care and service they’re best in class.
—Chambers USA, 2020-2023
The team is consistently excellent, collaborative and business oriented [and] provides concise and focused solutions on complex matters.
Excellent all around. They are adept at running large multi-faceted and time sensitive matters efficiently and finding innovative solutions to client issues.
—The Legal 500 US, 2023
They are extremely strong technically, have a great understanding of the commercial context. They are second to none in the market.
For complex multi-jurisdictional funds, we would choose Debevoise every time.
—The Legal 500 US, 2022
They are one of the leaders in the secondary PE space; they have seen all types of transactions and have an ability to think through all the angles and leverage international capabilities.
—Chambers Europe, 2020