Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft is a law firm founded in 1972 and based in New York City, New York. The firm provides legal advisory services to financial institutions, fortune 500 companies, and other corporations, government entities, charitable and health care organizations, and individual private clients. The firm focuses on areas including antitrust, business fraud, capital markets, corporate, energy, intellectual property, litigation, merger and acquisitions, financial restructuring, securitization and asset-based finance, white-collar defense, and tax. Cadwalader's Private Equity team represents many private equity firms in North America and Europe and their portfolio companies, delivering top quality deal execution, legal judgment and insight to sponsors focused on domestic and international leveraged buyouts, structured equity investments, mezzanine investments, real estate investments, and growth capital investments.