Difference between revisions of "SJ Berwin"

From Powerbase
Jump to: navigation, search
 
Line 1: Line 1:
SJ Berwin is a pan-European corporate and commercial law firm. SJ Berwin’s “forte” is private equity and it lobbies for the PE industry.
+
'''SJ Berwin''' is a pan-European corporate and commercial law firm. Its “forte” is private equity and it lobbies for the PE industry.
  
 
==Lobbying for private equity==
 
==Lobbying for private equity==
SJ Berwin is heavily involved with industry lobbying organisations, the [[British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association]] (BVCA) and [[European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association]] (EVCA). BVCA claims to represent “virtually every UK-based private equity and venture capital business”. SJ Berwin says: “Our lawyers place themselves at the centre of the industry through our lobbying and support of the sector as a whole… SJ Berwin is at the core of European Private Equity.” SJ Berwin led the BVCA’s lobbying on the Companies Act.<ref>[http://www.sjberwin.com/practicearea/private_equity/ SJ Berwin website], accessed Nov 2008 (old website, link now broken)</ref>
+
SJ Berwin is involved with industry lobbying organisations, the [[British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association]] (BVCA) and [[European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association]] (EVCA). SJ Berwin says: “Our lawyers place themselves at the centre of the industry through our lobbying and support of the sector as a whole… SJ Berwin is at the core of European Private Equity.” SJ Berwin led the BVCA’s lobbying on the Companies Act.<ref>[http://www.sjberwin.com/practicearea/private_equity/ SJ Berwin website], accessed Nov 2008 (old website, link now broken)</ref>
  
 
==People==
 
==People==

Revision as of 23:12, 26 February 2009

SJ Berwin is a pan-European corporate and commercial law firm. Its “forte” is private equity and it lobbies for the PE industry.

Lobbying for private equity

SJ Berwin is involved with industry lobbying organisations, the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVCA) and European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA). SJ Berwin says: “Our lawyers place themselves at the centre of the industry through our lobbying and support of the sector as a whole… SJ Berwin is at the core of European Private Equity.” SJ Berwin led the BVCA’s lobbying on the Companies Act.[1]

People

  • Simon Witney, lobbyist with SJ Berwin. He is also a member of the BVCA’s legal and technical committee. He has been heavily involved in lobbying national governments and the European Commission on issues related to private equity and corporate law.[2]
  • Jonathan Djanogly MP, partner in SJ Berwin. Djanogly is Conservative shadow minister for Corporate Governance, and Shadow Solicitor General. He is also a Conservative spokesman on industry and corporate responsibility.

Clients

PE clients include Barclays Equity, Apax Partners, and Bridgepoint Capital[3]

References

  1. SJ Berwin website, accessed Nov 2008 (old website, link now broken)
  2. SJ Berwin website, accessed Feb 2009
  3. SJ Berwin website, accessed Nov 2008