Sterlington

Sterlington is a full-service international law firm serving private capital, family offices, founders and senior executives. Its practice combines legal advice with commercial strategy and financial modeling, working at the intersection of business, finance and law. Core areas include M&A and take-private transactions, private equity deal structuring, patent litigation, and regulatory and compliance work.

The firm's lawyers come from top US and global firms, among them Wachtell Lipton, Cravath, Simpson Thacher and Kirkland & Ellis, alongside former senior government officials and in-house counsel. Matters are partner-driven, with senior attention applied to each engagement. Mergermarket ranked the firm 3rd in US PE M&A for targets in FY2025, and it has handled more than $40 billion in take-private transactions. Cited work spans a $9.2 billion data center acquisition and complex patent litigation.

Sterlington operates as a virtual firm with presence in New York, Philadelphia and the British Virgin Islands, and describes its model as built for efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. The firm positions itself around legal innovation and modern practice models, organizing teams around the simplest solutions to complex legal and regulatory problems for clients in private equity, technology, data centers and financial services.