Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Corporate, Asset Management, Private Acquisitions and Private Equity

Jeffrey Schatz is a corporate partner resident in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Schatz’s practice focuses on asset management work and concentrates on advising investment managers and financial institutions on all aspects of the structuring and formation of domestic and offshore private equity funds, hedge funds, credit funds, GP stake funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and co-investment vehicles. He also advises fund sponsors on negotiating separately managed accounts and funds-of-one. Additionally, he regularly counsels a diverse client base on sponsor-led secondary transactions and the structuring and negotiation of carried interest and other internal economic arrangements.

Mr. Schatz first joined the Firm in 2014 as an associate. He rejoined the Firm, as partner, in 2021 after having been a corporate partner at a large international law firm where he advised on the formation, structuring and operation of private equity funds and their management companies.

Mr. Schatz received his JD in 2012 from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Managing Editor of the Columbia Journal of European Law, and his BA from Cornell University in 2008.