Overview Choate launched one of the first private equity funds in 1983, and today we represent sophisticated and active private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies around the globe. Decades of experience— with teams who focus on the middle market—allows us to understand our clients’ business objectives and provide the strategic advice they need to meet their goals. Today, our private equity and M&A team is the largest group in the Firm, with more than 60 professionals focused on helping our clients execute their most important transactions. While we have deep bench strength to support large, complex transactions, we staff matters efficiently and do not add unnecessary members to a deal team. The lead partners on our transactions pride themselves on being heavily involved in the important details and execution. We work seamlessly with the other related areas in the firm, such as tax, finance, intellectual property, healthcare, employment, benefits, real estate, antitrust and litigation, to support our fund clients in all their investment activities. This integrated team has the experience needed to guide private equity funds and their companies through all stages of a transaction—and their efforts have earned us a reputation for being commercially-focused and working effectively with all parties to a transaction.