Bio

Lewis Blakey is a Private Equity partner in London, specialising in advising private equity and other financial investors on buyouts (including complex carve-out and public-to-private transactions), growth equity/minority investments, and exits (including sales and IPOs). Lewis is ranked for his private equity practice in the most recent UK editions of each of Chambers, Legal 500 and IFLR1000, and has consistently been recognised as a rising star of the private equity market. Lewis was also a key member of the Weil team awarded 2020 Private Equity Team of the Year at the Legal Business Awards for its work advising Bain Capital on the $4bn acquisition of 60% of Kantar from WPP Group. In the directories, Lewis has recently been described as “an excellent private equity/M&A lawyer”, “very bright, extremely tenacious and hard-working”, “a valued member of our deal team”, and “a rising star, who will quickly become a leader in his field” who has an “extremely commercial perspective, with a mind that can consider the question from all angles.” In 2018, Lewis was seconded to Advent International, where he served as European Counsel, advising on acquisitions, disposals and other matters.