Private funds

John Daghlian

John Daghlian is a partner in Akin’s investment funds group. He has advised on some of the largest and most complex secondary transactions for over two decades. He acts on a broad range of international and domestic private equity-driven transactions, including the establishment of private funds; private equity portfolio transactions; management buy-outs; secondary buy-outs; publicly traded funds; mergers and acquisitions; and general partner removal. He specializes in problematic situations. To learn more about Mr Daghlian, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/john-daghlian.html

Ed Gander

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Geoffrey Kittredge

Geoffrey Kittredge, a London-based partner and Chair of Debevoise’s European Funds/Investment Management Group, focuses his practice on private investment fund formation. Mr. Kittredge represents a broad range of international private equity and other private investment funds and their sponsors, including buyout, infrastructure, energy, credit, real estate, secondaries and venture funds, as well as funds of funds. 

Nigel van Zyl

Nigel van Zyl is a partner and co-head of Proskauer's Private Funds Group at Proskauer. Nigel specializes in advising asset managers, institutional investors and investment advisors across the full spectrum of investment fund matters. Praised for his keen business sense and practical approach, Nigel advises leading international fund managers on all aspects of their fund business, including the formation, raising, maintenance and ongoing operation and compliance of their investment funds. He also advises on internal governance, compliance and organization, carried interest and co-investment arrangements, spinouts, re-organizations and restructurings. Nigel represents institutional investors, including fund of funds, sovereign wealth funds, and global asset managers, with respect to their investments into private equity and other alternative asset funds. Nigel also advises buyers and sellers of secondary fund interests and the structures used for these transactions, including synthetic secondary and co-investment structures.

Lucie Rose

Lucie Rose is a special funds counsel in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of its Private Funds Group. She has extensive and up-to-date experience in advising both fund sponsors and asset managers on all aspects of fund formation and ongoing fund maintenance. This work spans a range of asset classes and fund generations, and encompasses both first-time funds and subsequent generations of funds. Lucie advises institutional investors on primary investments including those directed into co-investment and continuation vehicles, as well as supporting fund sponsors in relation to various liquidity solutions (including situations where a fund’s investment period has expired and it has little dry powder available to be called or recycled to support existing investments or investments limitations have been reached), or situations where the manager itself requires liquidity (including complex and innovative preferred equity structures which secure underlying fund management fee and carried interest income streams). Lucie has also worked on a range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of large portfolios of fund interests. Lucie is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and brings a global perspective to her work. Her early career experience as in-house lawyer for a prominent sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East provided her with a deep understanding of what clients need – and deserve – from their trusted advisers.

Aleksander Bakic

Aleksander Bakic is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. He advises clients on the structuring and negotiation of a wide range of secondary transactions, from fund book deals to GP and LP-led restructurings of single assets or wider portfolios. Aleks has particular experience in highly complex, cross-border transactions involving management spin-outs, stapled, syndicated and tendered deals, as well as deferred consideration. In addition, Aleks works with private equity funds and their investors on a wide range of investment funds matters. His experience spans across private equity, infrastructure and credit products, in established and developing markets.

Gabriel Boghossian

Gabriel is the head of Stephenson Harwood's market leading secondaries practice. Gabriel has particular market recognition for his work in complex private equity secondaries transactions and has extensive experience advising sponsors and buyers on secondaries transactions designed to provide liquidity to GPs and investors. Gabriel advises on the full range of transactions, including traditional and synthetic portfolio secondaries, preferred equity and GP-led continuation vehicles; his practice includes minority stakes sales, direct co-investments and other transactional matters. Gabriel has been recognised in in Legal Week’s most recent “40 under 40” private equity list and is recommended by The Legal 500 UK 2022 as well as Chambers UK 2022 specifically for his expertise in Secondaries deals.

Emily Brown

Partner

Theodore Cardos

Theodore Cardos is a private funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Theodore’s practice primarily involves structuring, negotiating and documenting complex business transactions in the private funds secondary market, including traditional portfolio sales, structured secondaries, synthetic secondaries, stapled secondary offerings, preferred equity and fund recapitalizations. Theodore also advises private funds in connection with direct co-investments and other transactional matters.

Matthew Dickman

Matt Dickman, a London-based partner and member of the firm’s Funds/Investment Management Group, advises on the formation, management and reorganisation of private investment funds. Mr. Dickman is also a leader in the firm’s Alternative Assets Transactions and Liquidity Solutions Group, where he regularly advises fund sponsors and investors on GP staking transactions, including internal reorganisations and internal economic and governance arrangements, as well as seed investments in emerging fund sponsors and secondary transactions. Mr. Dickman represents a broad range of international private equity and other private investment funds and their sponsors, including recent experience advising technology and venture capital funds.

Christopher Elson

Chris is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of its Private Funds Group. Chris advises fund managers on fundraising and fund structuring across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth, venture capital and credit funds. He also advises sponsors on tailored liquidity solutions, internal governance, ongoing fund maintenance and compliance matters. Chris has experience in management spin-outs as well as the structuring of carried interest and employee co-investment incentive plans. He also advises a number of institutional investors on secondary transactions and primary investments.

Amy Fox

Amy Fox is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Amy primarily represents sponsors on the formation and operation of private investment funds across a broad range of investment strategies, and other aspects of private investing in alternative asset classes, including separate account arrangements and co-investments. Amy’s practice also includes advising clients on secondary transactions, management company transactions and complex carried interest, sponsor co-investment and similar incentive arrangements.

Catherine Gokah

Catherine Gokah is a partner in the Investment Funds Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. She has extensive experience advising fund sponsors with respect to their core fundraising activities across multiple alternative asset classes including infrastructure, real estate and credit.

Aranpreet Randhawa

Aranpreet is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group in London. She advises European and international clients on the structuring, formation and operation of both open- and closed-ended investment funds across a range of strategies, including private equity, growth, infrastructure, and real estate. Aranpreet also counsels clients on spin-outs, co-investments, end of life restructurings, and carried interest and co-investment schemes.

John Rife

John Rife is an English-qualified partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm’s Funds/Investment Management Group, where he advises institutional and independent sponsors of buyout, debt, secondaries, real estate, emerging markets, infrastructure and energy funds, as well as funds of funds, on a broad range of matters, including fund formation and ongoing operational matters, co-investments, carried interest arrangements and internal reorganizations. In addition, Mr. Rife is a leader in the firm’s Alternative Asset and Secondary Investments Group and regularly advises sponsors and investors on secondary transactions including GP-led fund restructurings and tender offers, LP interest portfolio transactions, fundless sponsor transactions and other fund-related transactional matters.

Bruno Bertrand-Delfau

Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Bruno has 20 years’ experience in private equity secondaries, spin-offs of management teams, GP led transactions, fund restructurings and fund or preferred equity financings, and has worked on many of the largest and most complex transactions in the market, both in Europe and in the U.S. Bruno also advises institutional investors, including fund of funds and pension funds in their primary investments in private equity funds.

Anand Damodaran

Anand Damodaran is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Anand primarily advises private investment fund sponsors on the formation of credit, private equity and real estate funds. He also advises on the establishment of carried interest and co-investment schemes, secondaries and strategic fund sponsor transactions.

Amala Ejikeme

Amala Ejikeme is a partner in the Investment Funds Group at Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and focuses on advising European and global sponsors on the establishment of private funds pursuing a wide variety of investment strategies (including buyout, credit, growth, impact, infrastructure, real estate and venture). Amala has advised sponsors on traditional private equity fund structures, as well as structures incorporating long-dated, evergreen, open-ended, multiple currency, and levered/unlevered arrangements. He routinely advises clients on the formation of separately managed accounts, co-investments, as well as on management company issues and carried interest arrangements. He has also advised on strategic firm transactions and extraordinary events, such as investor default and founder separations.

Christopher Good

Christopher advises on private fund formation, looking after fund sponsors who are establishing and operating private investment funds. He advises across a range of asset classes, including private equity, credit, real estate, venture capital and growth and secondary capital.  As well as advising on fundraisings, Christopher also advises upon and helps structure and implement carried interest, co-invest and other executive incentive schemes. Christopher also regularly advises secondary purchasers and GP clients on secondary transactions, including portfolio transactions, liquidity solutions and fund recapitalisations and restructurings. He is also regularly asked to advise institutional clients on their primary investment programmes, co-investment operations and bespoke management arrangements with managers. Christopher has previously spent time on secondment with both Goldman Sachs and Legal & General Investment Management.  He is a member of the Association of Partnership Practitioners and participates in Invest Europe’s working groups on legal and regulatory affairs.

Diala Minott

Diala Minott is a Structured Credit partner in the London office of Paul Hastings. Mrs. Minott specializes in structured finance transactions, including acting on numerous CLOs and CDOs—both pre- and post-crisis, as well as acting on bespoke hybrid mid-market CLO type funds. Her practice also encompasses debt and credit funds with a particular focus on direct lending, CLO equity and risk retention funds. She covers regulated and unregulated funds, both onshore and offshore, with a particular expertise in Luxembourg funds.

Daniel Quinn

Partner

Gerard Saviola

Partner

Andrew Shore

Andy Shore is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Andy primarily advises private investment fund sponsors in relation to the structuring and establishment of private investment funds investing across all major alternative investment strategies in addition to the carried interest and co-investment plans associated with such funds. Andy also advises on a broad range of other transactions relating to private investment funds including secondary transactions, fund restructurings, co-investment arrangements, management team spin-outs and management company transactions.

Richard Watkins

Richard Watkins is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Richard primarily advises in relation to private equity fund structuring, carried interest, co-investment and other private equity incentive schemes and also advises on private equity transactions including secondaries, spin-outs and mergers of private equity houses.

Solomon Wifa

Solomon Wifa is a partner in the Asset Management Group. A well-established investment funds lawyer with experience across a diverse range of asset classes, Solomon has represented sponsors in the formation of, and institutional investors investing in, private equity, hedge, debt, mezzanine, infrastructure, real estate, energy and venture capital funds across a variety of sectors. Solomon also has extensive experience working on a wide range of secondary transactions, secondary directs, co-investment deals, management spinouts, managed accounts and joint ventures, and is involved in transactions in China, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Turkey and Central and Eastern Europe.

Duncan Woollard

Duncan Woollard is a partner in the Private Funds practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He advises on a wide range of fund related work including in private equity, private debt, real estate, mezzanine, venture, credit, natural resources, infrastructure, funds of funds, distressed and special situations, and activist funds, as well as advising on the structuring of carried interest, co-investment and other incentive schemes, secondary transactions, fund restructurings and spin-outs, and the establishment of new investment management businesses. His clients include Investindustrial, NorthEdge Capital, Pamplona Capital, LaSalle Investment Management, MML Capital Partners, Xenon Private Equity, Innova Capital, Hutton Collins, Omni Capital, Barings Capital, AMC Group, MVM and Innotech Investments.