Cleary Gottlieb advises private equity sponsors, asset managers, and investors on their most sophisticated transactions and strategic opportunities across the investment lifecycle. From fund formation and deployment to liquidity solutions and exits, clients turn to Cleary for deep transactional experience, commercial judgment, and sophisticated cross-border capabilities.

Our Sponsor Solutions Group brings these strengths to the increasingly complex secondaries and sponsor liquidity market, providing seamless counsel on GP-led secondaries and continuation vehicles, GP seeding, staking and other financings, and other innovative liquidity and strategic solutions. Drawing on lawyers across private funds, M&A, financing, tax, regulatory, and other disciplines, we help clients anticipate issues, navigate complexity, and execute efficiently.

Across the world’s major financial centers, Cleary combines global perspective with practical judgment to help sponsors and investors navigate their most consequential matters.