Global law firm Goodwin today announced that a market leading team of three private equity partners, Anu Balasubramanian, Jamie Holdoway and Chetan Sheth, will be joining the firm’s Private Equity practice in London.
Anu will be joining as Chair of European Private Equity working with the M&A, debt finance and private investment funds teams in London, Paris, Munich, Brussels and Luxembourg.
“We are delighted Anu, Jamie and Chetan have chosen to join Goodwin,” said Anthony McCusker, partner and Chair at Goodwin. “Continuing to invest in our London and European private equity capability is core to our global Goodwin 2033 strategy, which sees us providing excellent legal counsel and strategic business advisory to clients across the private equity ecosystem, from fund formation, to growth, buyout and portfolio transactions. Anu has an outstanding reputation in the market and the team’s track record for advising on sophisticated cross-border transactions in innovative and dynamic industries is a strong match with our global platform”.
“I am delighted to be joining Goodwin’s leading private equity team,” said Anu Balasubramanian. “In my new role, I am looking forward to working closely with the partners across Europe to deliver integrated and sophisticated cross-border solutions for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies and drive further client expansion across Goodwin’s global private equity platform”.
Goodwin is a market leader in private equity with more than 350 lawyers globally advising clients across the full investment lifecycle — from fund formation to leveraged buyouts, growth equity investments, management incentive plans and exits.
The trio’s addition follows a period of strategic growth for Goodwin’s private equity practice across the US, Asia and Europe, covering M&A, private investment funds, debt finance, tax, and regulatory specialties.
“We are excited to join forces with Anu, Jamie and Chetan in scaling our market-leading European private equity offering,” said Carl Bradshaw, London-based partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity practice and member of the firm’s global Executive Committee. “This team, alongside our other recent hires, demonstrates and enhances the strength of Goodwin’s deep industry expertise in technology, healthcare and life sciences and the advantage this brings to the client experience across our global platform”.
Over the past two years alone, the team has welcomed 22 partners globally including Ian Keefe, George Weavil, Jacqueline Eaves, Arvin Abraham, John Anderson, and Tom Roberts in London. The firm also announced that Matt Ayre and Emmie Jones will join in January 2026.
Anu Balasubramanian
Anu brings over 20 years of experience leading complex leveraged buyouts, corporate M&A and portfolio advice across a variety of sectors including technology and software, financial and business services and consumer services. She is consistently ranked as a leading lawyer in Chambers and Legal 500 and has been recognized as one of the “20 Most Influential Private Equity Lawyers” by Private Equity News in both 2024 and 2025. Anu has received a number of awards for her contributions to the legal industry and is widely respected for her leadership in the European buyout market.
Jamie Holdoway
Jamie advises a broad range of financial sponsors and has experience across transactions comprising the full range of downstream activity, including leading complex leveraged buyouts, consortia bids, sponsor joint ventures and minority investments and management incentivization, across a variety of sectors, including technology, digital infrastructure and business services.
Chetan Sheth
Chetan’s practice focuses on advising financial sponsor clients on a range of matters, including control investments, exits and divestitures, bolt-on transactions, joint ventures, co-investments, reorganisations and management incentivisation arrangements.
Goodwin was ranked the number one law firm in LSEG Q3 2025 league tables for global M&A by deal count and was named Law Firm of the Year (Transactions) in the 2024 Mergermarket British Private Equity Awards.