ANALYSIS: Private Companies, PE Drive Growth, Survey Finds

When senior securities and capital markets lawyers gazed into their crystal balls (for a recent Bloomberg Law survey), they found that private equity and private companies have the greatest expected prospects for growing legal work in this practice area. These responses confirm known legal industry trends that private equity is surging, and many private companies have been busy going public.

When those same securities lawyers considered their own practice rather than the industry’s future, securities lawyers said that at present they have more private company work versus public company work. Even so, they expect to see an increase in ...