Credit: Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock.com Status Driven With Unpredictable Fees: What Private Equity Clients Really Think About Their Lawyers
A lack of certainty on pricing for doing "not very difficult" work is one of the most common complaints from leaders at private equity firms, who opened up to Law.com International about experiences with their legal advisers.
October 21, 2024 at 04:48 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.com International
Zero. That is the amount of patience allowed for poor service by one general counsel of a private equity firm in the Nordic region.
Thankfully, given the legal industry's relentless push into the highly competitive private capital sector over the last decade, the GC and others working in the private equity industry do not experience sloppy interactions with their advisers very often.
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