PitchBook recently named Goodwin among the top 3 most active law firms in the United States for private equity debt deals in the third quarter of 2019. This increase in the rankings reflects Goodwin’s significant experience and recently expanded practice focused on representing private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and direct lenders in a broad range of financing transactions. It also shows Goodwin’s proficiency in the key healthcare and technology sectors, as many of the firm’s recent deals involve providing comprehensive guidance to clients in these rapidly growing and evolving industries.
Goodwin’s Debt Finance practice consist of more than fifty lawyers focused on lending transactions, with deep expertise in direct lending transactions, broadly syndicated facilities, acquisition financings, asset-based lending, junior capital, venture debt, unitranche facilities, real estate finance, loan portfolio purchases and sales, loan workouts and restructurings. Our lawyers pride themselves on having many gears – we bring the right team to a venture financing for an emerging company and to a multi-tranche financing for a sophisticated financial sponsor.
PitchBook’s US Private Equity Lending League Tables analyze the most active lenders and advisors to US private equity-backed companies and ranks the elite law firms handling debt transactions across the private investment landscape.