Ian Shawyer
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Private Equity: Buyouts: Up to £500 million
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About
Provided by Ian Shawyer
Practice Areas
Ian’s practice focuses on private equity transactions and complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
With over two decades of experience in private equity, Ian is a longstanding and trusted advisor to pan-European and international corporations, institutional investors, alternative asset managers, senior management teams, founders, and investee companies for both transactional and advisory matters.
Ian has in-depth experience advising on a full range of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, consortium deals, bolt-on acquisitions, carve-outs, co-investments, minority deals, recapitalizations, divestments, distressed M&A, public-to-privates, joint ventures, reorganizations, and restructurings.
Ian also advises global asset management clients on GP-stake transactions, GP succession planning (including restructuring ownership and governance arrangements), and structured secondary market liquidity solutions (including GP-led and LP-led secondary transactions).
Career
Ian joined Cleary Gottlieb as a partner in 2023 and is Co-Head of the EMEA Private Equity Group. He was previously Head of the Private Equity and Financial Sponsors group at a leading UK private equity transactional firm.
Professional Memberships
England and Wales
Chambers Review
UK
Ian Shawyer concentrates his practice on handling domestic and international private equity deals. He acts for private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ian is an absolute top lawyer. He is very bright, commercial and measured."
"Ian is a powerhouse lawyer with excellent commercial acumen and great levels of service."
"Ian is highly experienced and very empathetic."
"Ian is an absolute top lawyer. He is very bright, commercial and measured."
"Ian is a powerhouse lawyer with excellent commercial acumen and great levels of service."
"Ian is highly experienced and very empathetic."