Chapman Partners advises companies, investors, and entrepreneurs in a broad range of corporate and transactional matters.

The firm represents clients ranging from leading private investment funds and established corporations to emerging growth companies and founders.

Our work includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, joint ventures, investment transactions, distressed investments and special situations, capital raises, financing arrangements, and restructurings.

The firm’s lawyers bring decades of experience advising clients across a range of industries, including financial services, asset management, technology, entertainment, and industrial and service businesses. We regularly advise private investment funds, financial institutions, corporations, and emerging companies in transactions ranging from middle-market investments to complex transactions involving significant enterprise value.

In every matter, Chapman Partners focuses on clear strategic judgment, careful structuring, and the practical considerations that drive successful business outcomes.

Representative Experience

The firm’s lawyers have advised companies, investment funds, and entrepreneurs in a wide range of sophisticated corporate and investment transactions, including strategic acquisitions, restructurings, and complex cross-border investments. Representative matters of the firm’s lawyers have included advising:

• A leading global hedge fund in numerous distressed and special situation investments across the energy, telecommunications, retail, and media sectors, including investments in major Chapter 11 restructurings.

• A leading hedge fund in the sale of a $1.1 billion portfolio of assets.

• A major hedge fund in connection with its investment in securities issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

• A leading credit manager in a $335 million bond exchange transaction, including PIK financing components, involving a national restaurant chain.

• A large credit fund in the restructuring of the capital structure of a for-profit education company.

• A credit fund in the acquisition of a credit derivatives products business from a major financial institution.

• A hedge fund in the acquisition of the largest cattle feedlot company in the United States.

• The chief investment officer of a credit hedge fund in the spin-off of the fund from a private equity sponsor, including a subsequent seed investment in the management company.

• A business development company, as senior secured creditor, in the bankruptcy of Ebony Media, resulting in a successful sale of the company and full recovery of the client’s investment.

• A financial institution in the spin-off of its collective investment trust business.

• A shareholder in connection with a squeeze-out merger transaction.

• An insurance company in the sale of its GP and seed LP interests in a real estate asset management platform.

• Investment funds in the acquisition and funding of litigation claims and other legal assets.

• A defense technology company backed by the Australian government in the acquisition of the U.S. defense division of a UK public company.

• A major insurance company in connection with its co-investment with JC Flowers in the acquisition of HSH Nordbank.

• A leading specialist and market-making firm in the roll-up of its specialist business, involving more than a dozen acquisitions.

• Management in the management buyout of Greenhill’s private equity division.

*Additional representative matters may be discussed upon request, subject to client confidentiality obligations.