Oliver Phillips

Associate, London
oliver.phillips@whitecase.com

Biography

Overview

Ollie is a senior associate in the funds group in London. He advises fund managers and investors across a range of alternative asset classes, including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, impact and venture capital.

In addition to acting for managers on the formation, restructuring and on-going operation of their funds, Ollie routinely represents funds of funds, sovereign wealth funds and major institutional investors on their global investment programmes, with a particular focus on secondaries, GP-led transactions, co-investments and complex LP matters.

Ollie's secondaries experience encompasses traditional portfolio sales, stapled secondary offerings, GP-led transactions, continuation funds, fund restructurings, preferred equity investments and other liquidity solutions.

Prior to joining White & Case in 2024, Ollie worked as an associate in the London asset management practice of another elite US law firm. He also has extensive in-house experience, and most recently, was seconded to AlpInvest/Carlyle in 2023.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, Solicitor
Education
Master of Arts
(Joint Hons.)
University of Edinburgh
Graduate Diploma in Law
BPP University
Legal Practice Course
BPP University
Languages
English
French
Spanish

Experience

Private Equity
  • A leading California-based investment firm as the lead investor in a single-asset continuation fund managed by a Canadian sponsor; *
  • AlpInvest on various primary, co-investment, secondary and GP-led transactions, including the secondary acquisition of a portfolio of private equity fund interests from a Swedish pension fund and stapled primary commitment; *
  • A Dutch pension fund on the disposal of a c. $2 billion private equity portfolio to multiple secondary buyers; *
  • A leading European secondaries buyer on the €500 million joint venture preferred equity acquisition of a significant minority stake in a French restaurant group; *
  • A leading UK institutional investor on its primary, co-investment and secondary transactions, including the sales of two private equity portfolios of over $1 billion to multiple buyers; *
  • Various European and Asian sovereign investors on their primary, co-investment and secondaries programmes, including SMA/fund-of-one arrangements; *
  • HarbourVest as a syndicate investor in a multi-asset continuation fund managed by a US sponsor; *
  • Partners Group on various primary and secondary investments; *
  • Pantheon Ventures on numerous primary, co-investment and secondary transactions, including: *
    • a series of debt secondary acquisitions and stapled secondary offerings; and
    • the sale of a portfolio of over 175 private equity interests to a new continuation fund managed by Pantheon, with a single third-party investor;
  • A number of leading sponsors, including Columbia Threadneedle, Infracapital Partners, Timberland Investment Resources and Ironwood Capital on fund formation and restructuring transactions; and *

*Experience prior to joining White & Case