Latham & Watkins LLP

Oliver Prakash-Jenkins represents private capital sponsors on the full spectrum of their formation, investment, and operational activities across a range of strategies.

Oliver delivers incisive advice and innovative solutions for his clients and their businesses, approaching each matter energetically and collaboratively to advance their commercial aims in fund formation related matters involving:

• Buyouts
• Infrastructure, including digital infrastructure
• Energy, including energy transition
• Credit
• Real estate
• Growth equity

He has experience working with all types of clients, from global multi-strategy managers and emerging managers to first-time fund sponsors, on capital-raising initiatives ranging from US$100 million to more than US$14 billion, including with respect to their co-investment and separately managed account programs, as well as open-end structures. Through his work, Oliver builds long-term relationships with clients to help them navigate management and general partner-level considerations, and structure their internal governance, economic, and succession arrangements. Oliver is particularly noted for his work in the buyout, infrastructure, and credit space, which includes advising six of the largest infrastructure sponsors on the successful formation of their closed-end and open-end equity funds, as well as credit funds incorporating various rated feeder, multi-currency, and back-leverage solutions.

As part of his practice, Oliver frequently represents clients on their most sophisticated structured secondaries transactions, including traditional secondaries, GP-led recapitalizations, and stapled tender offers. He also counsels prominent investors on their primary and co-investment activities, as well as management teams seeking to spin out their business to an independent platform.

When executing matters for his clients, Oliver leverages a comprehensive understanding of regulatory components and counterparties to implement structures across multiple jurisdictions — including Luxembourg, Ireland, Mexico, and Chile — and maximize fundraising and deployment opportunities for his clients.

Before joining Latham, Oliver advised several prominent European private capital sponsors while based in London at another international law firm.

Representative Speaking Engagements

• • Panelist, Emerging Managers' Fundraising Bootcamp (September 11, 2024)
  • Speaker, “North American Sponsors: How to Successfully Unlock European Capital” (April 23, 2024)