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Rankings published in 2026
Private equity - Foreign
Tier 3
26 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Clifford Chance
16 practice areas
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Kirkland & Ellis
8 practice areas
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Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison
6 practice areas
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
9 practice areas
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Tier 2

A&O Shearman - China
16 practice areas
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Davis Polk & Wardwell
8 practice areas
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Freshfields
12 practice areas
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Goodwin Procter
5 practice areas
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Latham & Watkins
15 practice areas
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Morrison & Foerster
11 practice areas
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Paul Hastings
16 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
13 practice areas
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Weil Gotshal & Manges
7 practice areas
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Tier 3

A&O Shearman
16 practice areas
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Baker McKenzie
14 practice areas
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
10 practice areas
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Cooley
5 practice areas
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DLA Piper
14 practice areas
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Debevoise & Plimpton
5 practice areas
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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
8 practice areas
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
15 practice areas
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Morgan Lewis & Bockius
5 practice areas
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O'Melveny & Myers
8 practice areas
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Ropes & Gray
8 practice areas
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Sidley Austin
11 practice areas
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
5 practice areas
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Debevoise & Plimpton is a New York-based global law firm with 655 lawyers across 10 offices in the US, Europe and Asia. The firm services its clients with Chinese interests from its offices in Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Debevoise & Plimpton is transactionally strongest in strategic and private equity, M&A and private funds. 

Key clients of the firm include Carlyle Group, Alibaba Group, Baring Private Equity Partners Asia, Ontario Teachers Plan Pension Board, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Wilsonart International.

During the research period, the firm handled large private equity fund formation and secondaries matters alongside take-privates, joint ventures, recapitalisations, restructuring mandates and acquisitions in the healthcare, consumer goods, retail, agriculture, chemicals and insurance industries. 

Deal highlights

-Anta Sports Products $5.15 billion acquisition of Amer Sports 

-Baring Private Equity Asia Fund VII

-MYOB Group $1.2 billion take-private

-National Investment and Infrastructure Fund  

-New Frontier Corporation $1.44 billion acquisition of United Family Healthcare

-WeWork Companies restructuring 

Client feedback: 30th edition (2019/2020)

Investment funds

“Know us and the market norms very well; extremely efficient in their work; proactive and strong advocates for their clients.”

“Technically very sound and great depth in domain knowledge and experience. Excellent turnaround times.”

“Technically excellent and good, in-depth understanding of the private equity industry.”

“Practical advice and prompt responses”

M&A

“Responsive, understands clients’ goals.”

Private equity 

“Good market intel. Responsiveness. Professional with good technical knowledge.”

“Very responsive and worked to tight capped fee estimates.” 

“Proactive, commercial, tailors work to the client and remembers previous deals and positions. User friendly.” 

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