A&O Shearman has added Dan Graham and Paul Dunbar to the firm’s Private Equity and M&A practice in London.The pair join a team of over 200 partners who work with private capital investors across the US, UK, EMEA and APAC.
A&O Shearman private equity business advises nine of the 10 largest global private equity fund managers and 60% of the 25 largest global private equity fund managers, according to PEI 300 2023.
Graham has particular experience advising sophisticated financial sponsors in complex international or cross-border transactions. His practice focuses on advising private equity firms and other financial institutions on transactions including leveraged buyouts, venture and growth capital investments, joint-ventures and co-investments, opportunistic and distressed acquisitions, take-privates and carve-outs, across the investment lifespan through to exit.
Dunbar’s practice focuses on transactions for private equity clients, advising on public and private corporate M&A, asset portfolio M&A, distressed M&A, joint ventures, and preferred equity investments. He works with clients investing in a broad range of sectors, including financial services and fintech, real estate, energy, manufacturing and industrials, infrastructure, transportation, healthcare and retail.
Graham and Dunbar join from Sidley Austin and follow the recent Debt Finance hires of Karen McMaster, Parisa Clovis and Filippo Crosara.
