Fatema Orjela
UK Guide 2025
Up and Coming : Private Equity: Buyouts: £500 million and above
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About
Provided by Fatema Orjela
Practice Areas
Fatema is an award-winning private equity partner whose practice focuses on providing strategic counsel to European and US private equity sponsors. She has pan-European cross sector experience on the full range of corporate matters, including leveraged buyouts, strategic mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, structured and minority equity investments, equity and debt restructurings, and management equity plans, as well as related advisory work.
Fatema is distinguished by her work in promoting diversity in the legal profession. She has been included in the Class of 2021 at Law.com’s Women, Influence & Power in Law UK Awards as “Mentor of the Year” for which Fatema was the top “Outstanding Winner”.
Fatema has also been actively involved in initiatives across the City, including her roles as co-founder of “Women in Law, London” (WILL) a network with over 2,000 members across London aiming to promote and engage the next generation of women leaders in law, an Events Committee member of the “City Women’s Network” (CWN), and advisory panel member of “Oxford Women in Law” (OWL).
Chambers Review
UK
Fatema Orjela is a well-regarded private equity partner who enjoys a burgeoning reputation for her expertise in advising national and international sponsors on significant transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Fatema is excellent. She is incredibly fun to work with, incredibly thorough and creative. She is also dedicated to her clients."
"Fatema is a high calibre lawyer."
"She is very pragmatic and responsive. We always knows that Fatema will go above and beyond what the average person would do."
"Fatema is excellent. She is incredibly fun to work with, incredibly thorough and creative. She is also dedicated to her clients."
"Fatema is a high calibre lawyer."
"She is very pragmatic and responsive. We always knows that Fatema will go above and beyond what the average person would do."