Global law firm Goodwin announced today that Hugh O’Sullivan will join the firm’s Private Equity practice as partner in the London office.
“Hugh’s arrival further strengthens our bench to execute leveraged buyouts, an area where we are seeing increasing activity and demand for sophisticated counsel,” said Simon Fulbrook, partner in Goodwin’s Debt Finance practice. “His experience advising on some of the highest profile private equity deals over the last ten years is perfectly aligned to the needs of our expanding financial sponsor client base.”
O’Sullivan specializes in advising sponsors, corporates, funds and financial institutions across a wide range of complex and multi-jurisdictional financing transactions, including leveraged finance, bridge finance and restructurings. He also has extensive experience in the leveraged loan and high yield finance space.
Goodwin’s London Private Equity practice has grown substantially in the last 12 months, with the arrival of James Grimwood in 2020, and the appointment of Geoff O’Dea last month. With the recent addition of tax partner Dulcie Daly, who has extensive experience advising sponsors, Goodwin now has more than 140 private equity lawyers in Europe across its London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Luxembourg offices.
Goodwin was named by Chambers UK 2021 and Legal 500 2021 as a leading law firm in private equity and was ranked by Refinitiv as the number one legal advisor (by deal count) for global M&A in 2020, representing clients on more than 650 completed transactions.