Key Takeaways
- • DLA Piper recruits Brian Gingold from Weil Gotshal & Manges as co-lead of its New York Private Equity practice, reinforcing the firm's market position in PE advisory.
- • Gingold brings 25+ years of experience in leveraged buyouts, M&A, complex carveouts, recapitalizations, and cross-border transactions across consumer, industrials, healthcare, tech, and infrastructure sectors.
- • DLA Piper's global Private Equity practice operates 225+ lawyers and ranks #1 most active among law firms by PitchBook, positioning the firm to advise sponsors, lenders, and portfolio companies across the full investment lifecycle.
- • Gingold's appointment underscores DLA Piper's strategic focus on enhancing capabilities around increasingly sophisticated financing, investment execution, and value creation challenges in dynamic private capital markets.
Summary
DLA Piper announced on August 26, 2026, that Brian Gingold has joined the firm as co-lead of its New York Private Equity practice. The hire represents a strategic addition to the firm's PE advisory capabilities, with Gingold transitioning from Weil Gotshal & Manges to assume the co-leadership role alongside existing practice leadership.
Gingold brings more than 25 years of specialized experience advising private equity sponsors, lenders, and portfolio companies across a broad range of transaction types. His practice encompasses leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority investments, complex carveouts, dispositions, recapitalizations, and reorganizations. His work includes both domestic and cross-border matters spanning key sectors including consumer, industrials, telecom and digital infrastructure, healthcare and life sciences, transportation, and technology. This sector diversity and transaction complexity align with the types of sophisticated mandates that characterize contemporary PE fund activity.
Joseph Silver, who leads DLA Piper's Private Equity practice globally, emphasized that "Brian's extensive experience will enhance our capabilities as our clients seek strategic counsel to execute transactions, deploy capital, and create value in an increasingly dynamic market." The statement reflects DLA Piper's positioning around the evolving sophistication of private capital markets—particularly the financing, investment structuring, and execution challenges that PE sponsors now face.
DLA Piper's Private Equity practice operates with more than 225 lawyers globally and serves both leading PE funds and their portfolio companies. According to PitchBook data, the firm ranks as the #1 most active law firm in private equity transactions, underscoring its market-leading position. The practice provides integrated counsel across the full investment lifecycle, from deployment through exit, with emphasis on responsive and efficient advisory across multiple jurisdictions.
Gingold brings more than 25 years of specialized experience advising private equity sponsors, lenders, and portfolio companies across a broad range of transaction types. His practice encompasses leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, minority investments, complex carveouts, dispositions, recapitalizations, and reorganizations. His work includes both domestic and cross-border matters spanning key sectors including consumer, industrials, telecom and digital infrastructure, healthcare and life sciences, transportation, and technology. This sector diversity and transaction complexity align with the types of sophisticated mandates that characterize contemporary PE fund activity.
Joseph Silver, who leads DLA Piper's Private Equity practice globally, emphasized that "Brian's extensive experience will enhance our capabilities as our clients seek strategic counsel to execute transactions, deploy capital, and create value in an increasingly dynamic market." The statement reflects DLA Piper's positioning around the evolving sophistication of private capital markets—particularly the financing, investment structuring, and execution challenges that PE sponsors now face.
DLA Piper's Private Equity practice operates with more than 225 lawyers globally and serves both leading PE funds and their portfolio companies. According to PitchBook data, the firm ranks as the #1 most active law firm in private equity transactions, underscoring its market-leading position. The practice provides integrated counsel across the full investment lifecycle, from deployment through exit, with emphasis on responsive and efficient advisory across multiple jurisdictions.
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