Ropes & Gray LLP

Peter Laybourn is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s asset management group and co-leader of the firm’s buyout and growth equity funds team. Focusing on fundraising for private equity and other private funds, Peter has helped steer clients through complex fundraisings and transactions ranging in size from a hundred million to many billion dollars. 

Drawing on his extensive experience in the formation of growth and buyout funds, credit funds, funds of funds, co-investment funds, energy funds and secondary funds for both emerging and well-established firms, Peter brings deep insight and creativity to the fundraising process. Peter regularly helps clients navigate critical operational and governance matters as well as complex fund level transactions. Moreover, Peter also works with private fund sponsors as well as other institutional clients in the negotiation and execution of domestic and international transactions, GP-led fund restructurings, “spinoffs,” succession planning, joint ventures and general investment management matters.

Some of Peter’s clients include Antares Capital, Audax Group, Bain Capital, Baupost Group, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Constitution Capital Partners, Hamilton Lane, Neuberger Berman, Shoreline Equity Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners.