Jonathan Karen

Corporate/Private Funds/Investment Funds

Corporate Partner that has led recent efforts in some of the industry’s most successful and market-defining private equity fund formations and numerous other separate accounts, funds-of-one and similar custom arrangements across multiple asset classes, including buyout, real estate, infrastructure, secondaries and distressed and mezzanine debt. Notable formations include Blackstone’s recent flagship corporate, energy and real estate private equity funds, and Silver Lake, Stonepeak Infrastructure, Rockpoint Real Estate and Centerbridge Partners in each of their flagship and ancillary funds. Jonathan also counsels investment firms on a mix of matters involving private investment funds, including internal economic arrangements for private fund sponsors, regulatory compliance, M&A transactions and strategic investments involving private fund sponsors, joint ventures and spin-outs.

B.A., cum laude, Duke University (1998); J.D., New York University School of Law (2001).