Geoff Yates is a corporate partner with Addleshaw Goddard LLP, where he specialises in private equity. He has acted for many years for both private equity houses and management teams on a range of transactions including MBOs, MBIs and take private transactions. A member of the CBI Companies Committee, he is a regular public speaker on private equity and company law matters. Mike Hinchliffe is a partner at Addleshaw Goddard LLP, with over 10 years' experience advising private equity firms, banks and investee companies in the UK on MBOs, MBIs, development capital and venture capital transactions. He also advises a number of private equity investors in relation to the ongoing management of their portfolio companies and exit transactions.

• 1. An introduction to private equity; 2. The deal process and preliminary matters; 3. Transaction structures and deal documents; 4. Acquisition issues; 5. Equity documentation; 6. Debt funding; 7. Employment issues; 8. Pensions; 9. Taxation on private equity transactions; 10. Public to private transactions; 11. Living with the investment; 12. Secondary buyouts; 13. Exits.

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