Investment Funds

Our offering

We pride ourselves on the breadth of our offering, spanning private fund formation, investor representation, secondary transactions and strategic GP advisory mandates. Given the cross-practice nature of our mandates, our Investment Funds team collaborates seamlessly with specialists in other disciplines such as tax, regulatory (including CFTC, BHCA, ERISA and CFIUS), M&A, antitrust, fund finance, ESG and disputes. Our deep insight into the market enables us to understand our clients' needs and tailor the appropriate solution.

Private fund formation

We have extensive experience advising on the establishment, structuring and management of blind pool funds, separately managed accounts, deal-by-deal structures and co-investment vehicles across a broad range of private capital strategies. We have advised emerging managers and sophisticated sponsors across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit, venture capital and impact funds. Our structuring expertise ranges from traditional closed-ended structures to evergreen and semi-liquid structures.

Investor representation

Having worked extensively with sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies and family offices on the deployment of billions of dollars into their private capital investment programs, we have unique insight into their specific commercial, regulatory and policy needs. We advise our investor clients on primary investments, co-investments, secondary transactions and strategic arrangements with GPs. We bring a balanced and pragmatic approach to negotiations with fund sponsors.

Secondary transactions

Our secondaries specialists have advised clients on numerous buy-side GP and LP-led liquidity transactions, with deep experience with continuation funds, portfolio sales, fund recapitalizations and preferred equity transactions. We invest in keeping on top of the terms and trends that shape a rapidly evolving secondaries market. We have thought through many of the considerations relating to the drivers and structures for a range of secondary transactions.

Strategic GP solutions

We leverage our extensive experience advising various stakeholders on GP stakes and strategic solutions, a rapidly evolving sector in the funds space. Recognizing that there is no "one-size-fits-all" approach to such transactions, we integrate our fundraising, secondaries and M&A experience to structure and implement innovative solutions tailored to the transaction parties.