USA Law and Practice Contributed by: Vijay Sekhon, Brien Wassner, John Godfrey and Justin Macke, Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley Austin LLP is a global law firm with 2,300 lawyers in 21 offices situated in key commercial and financial hubs globally. The firm has represented cli - ents in more than 70 countries on complex transac - tional, investigation, regulatory and litigation matters. The firm’s lawyers and business professionals, flu - ent in more than 80 languages, possess the cultural awareness and cross-border legal acumen needed to bring clarity to a dynamic business landscape. Sidley
has an extensive private equity practice with lawyers around the world principally focused on advising its private equity clients. The firm’s private equity lawyers possess deep experience across the broad spectrum of private equity transactions, from multibillion-dollar leveraged buyouts (LBOs) to growth equity invest - ments in premium middle markets companies. The firm would like to thank Adrian Zhang for his contri - bution to this chapter.
Authors
Vijay Sekhon is a private equity partner in Sidley’s San Francisco and Century City offices and an adjunct professor at Berkeley Law. His practice focuses on mergers, purchases, sales, and reorganisations
Brien Wassner serves as global co-leader of Sidley’s Private Equity practice and the New York M&A and Private Equity group, and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He represents private
of businesses for companies and private equity and hedge funds. Vijay also focuses on public debt and equity offerings, private placements, and purchases and sales of debt and equity, and general corporate and securities law, including advising companies and private equity and hedge funds on their disclosure obligations under the federal securities laws. Vijay is recognised in Chambers USA for Private Equity: Buyouts in California (2020–25).
equity, multi-strategy asset managers and other private capital investors in connection with mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, financings and general corporate matters. Brien’s extensive experience working in private equity across assets, industries and geographies has allowed him to advise his clients in highly complex multi-faceted transactions across jurisdictions. He has been recognised in Chambers USA for Private Equity: Buyouts in New York (2022–25).
John Godfrey is a private equity partner in Sidley’s New York office. He represents private equity firms, portfolio companies, and other private and public companies on mergers, acquisitions, sales, joint ventures and
Justin Macke is a private equity partner in Sidley’s New York office. He focuses his practice on corporate law and counsels private equity firms and their portfolio companies, founder-led private companies, and
other complex transactions, as well as general corporate governance matters.
public companies and their boards of directors in a wide variety of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, carve-out transactions, restructurings and 363 sales, public to public mergers, and cross- border M&A. Justin advises companies across many industry verticals, with particular focus on industrials, aerospace and defence, and consumer.
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