Christopher Robinson > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Proskauer Rose LLP
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10036-8299
NEW YORK
United States
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Work Department

Corporate

Position

Christopher C. Robinson is co-head of Proskauer’s Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions practice and a partner in Proskauer’s Private Funds Group. He primarily focuses his practice on representing buyers and sellers, as well as market intermediaries, in connection with complex secondary transactions, including traditional sales and purchases of fund interests, secondary direct transactions, captive fund spin-out arrangements, fund recapitalizations and restructurings and “stapled” secondary transactions.

In addition, he regularly represents sponsors of, and institutional investors in, private investment funds, including buyout, energy, credit, mezzanine, healthcare, real estate, venture capital, special situation and secondary funds, as well as separate and other managed accounts.

Christopher has significant experience with a diverse group of private investment firms and select representative sponsor clients include Avego Healthcare Capital, Brightwood Capital Advisors, Core Capital Partners, DFW Capital Partners, FLVCRUM, Greycroft Partners, Havencrest Capital Management, Inovia Capital, LNC Partners, Melkonian Capital,  New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Palladium Equity Partners, RLJ Equity Partners, Skyview Capital, Spindletop Capital, SV Health Investors, WestCap and Vesey Street Capital Partners, among others.

In addition, Christopher represents some of the most active secondary investors in the market, and select representative “buy-side” clients include 50 South Capital, Apollo Global Management (Sponsor and Secondary Solutions/S3), Ares/Landmark Partners, Arrowhead Management, Atalaya Capital, BentallGreenOak (BGO), Blackstone (Strategic Partners),  Churchill Asset Management, Commonfund Capital, CPP Investments (CPPIB), FlowStone Partners, Glendower Capital, Hollyport Capital, Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), J.P. Morgan, Lexington Partners, Neuberger Berman, Pantheon, Partners Group, Portfolio Advisors and W Capital, among others.

Prior to joining Proskauer, Christopher was a corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)

Proskauer Rose LLP‘s private investment funds practice is praised by clients for its ‘deep bench and terrific expertise on both fund formation and regulatory work’. The team advises on the structuring and maintenance of private funds, among which are buyout, growth equity, credit and funds of funds, as well as having a particular strength in secondaries transactions and expertise across related tax and regulatory matters. Monica Arora and Howard Beber jointly lead the US based private funds group, with the former being based in New York and specializing on sponsor side advice to funds across diverse asset classes while the latter sits in Boston and focuses on private fund formation, secondaries transactions, including GP-led transactions. Other key names in Boston include venture capital and growth equity fund formation expert Robin Painter, David Tegeler, who is well versed in secondaries transactions and asset manager M&A deals and secondary fund liquidity solutions specialist Mike Suppappola. Credit funds specialist Chip Parsons and secondaries attorney Christopher Robinson are key members of the team based in New York.