Claire McDaid

Claire McDaid is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group in London. She focuses on private equity and corporate M&A transactions, advising principally financial sponsors, family offices, corporates and strategic investors on a variety of cross-border investment transactions, including leveraged buyouts, complex carve-outs, hybrid capital, growth equity, recapitalisations and liquidity transactions. Claire has particular experience in the distressed and special situations sphere, advising a variety of stakeholders in such transactions across Europe.

Claire is recognized by Chambers UK (2027), Chambers Global (2026) and The Legal 500 UK (2026) for high value private equity transactions. Clients commend how Claire “is a fantastic client relationship partner” and that she is “very much in the detail but is also commercial and focused on what matters." 

Clients have also reported to Chambers that “Claire is fantastic to work with” and that “Claire has overseen the team and provided great advice and support to us throughout. She is friendly and commercial in her approach”, and that she “understands what is important to us as clients.”

Claire McDaid has also been named in the 20th edition of the Financial News 2026 Most Influential Women in European Finance list and was recognized by Private Equity News as one of the “Twenty Most Influential Private Equity Lawyers 2025”. She is also named among the leading female transactional lawyers in the UK in the IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2027 guide and as a Notable Practitioner for M&A and Private Equity. Claire is also recognized in IFLR1000 (2027) and Best Lawyers (2025) for Private Equity and M&A.