Legal

Eye-watering legal charges have been likened to ‘racketeering’; industry co-operation could solve the problem.

Transfer agreements are seen as a $100,000 'copy & paste job' by some and 'complex legal contracts' that law firms are losing money on by others.

To create a more comprehensive apples-to-apples comparison, respondents to Secondaries Investor's annual law firm survey were provided with this set of parameters.

Lawyers from Skadden, Arps examine how sale and purchase agreements have evolved to better fit sponsor-initiated processes.

Updates to how effectively connected income is treated may lead to an easier and more standardised process for secondaries transfers, argue lawyers from Macfarlanes.

The secondaries market is burgeoning with new entrants and LP interest. Buyers are clamouring for lead buyer status, but does it pay to be hyperbolic if there are contracts to back up the facts?

Clark joins the Magic Circle firm as head of its global funds practice from Goodwin.

Our latest poll of the legal world suggests a $1trn market isn’t far off.

Now in its seventh year, our latest survey of law firm activity shows an industry advising on a collective $754bn of transaction volume.

The appointments are the latest in a string of secondaries lawyer moves to firms such as Fried Frank and Sidley Austin.