Legal DealFolio (www.legaldealfolio.com) classifies law firm client work into a database. This is how we classify private equity deals, financial buyer deals, primary buy-outs, management buy-outs etc. This permits specific lawyer and law firm expertise to be identified.

1. Financial Buyer
Transactions
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Corporate and M&A
Other
Corporate /M&A
Minority
Investment
Venture Capital
Take-Private
Secondary
Buy-Out
Primary Buy-Out
Management
Buy-Out
Institutional
Buy-Out
Management
Buy-Out
Institutional
Buy-Out
Management
Buy-Out
Institutional
Buy-Out
Institutional
Investors
Management
Financial Investor* Financial Advisor
Vendor
Classification Matrix
For Financial Buyer/Private
Equity Transactions, Sept 2015
This matrix represents how we classify law firm client
work for private equity transactions. Please note that this is
for the corporate side only – any related financing
transactions will be classified under International Finance
and Bank Credit (Acquisition Finance) or DCM (High-Yield
Bonds) as appropriate.
*including PE funds
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