Mr Carl A. de Brito > Dechert LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Dechert LLP
Three Bryant Park, 1095 Avenue of the Americas
NEW YORK, NY 10036-6797
NEW YORK
United States
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Work Department

Financial Services and Investment Management

Career

Carl A. de Brito is a partner in Dechert’s corporate and securities and financial services practices, as well as former co-chair of the firm’s private fund formation practice and former chair of the New York corporate and securities practice. He advises on private equity and credit fund formation and investments, as well as mergers and acquisitions, and securities and corporate finance transactions.

As counsel to a wide variety of institutional asset managers, including private equity and credit fund sponsors, Mr. de Brito advises on U.S. and overseas private fund formation and investment matters, private offerings of equity and debt securities and portfolio company and credit asset acquisitions and dispositions. In particular, he has represented asset managers and investors in fund formation matters across a broad based asset class, including buyout, mezzanine, distressed debt, high yield, credit opportunities and direct lending, as well as investment and leverage financing activities by those funds.

Memberships

  • American Bar Association, Business Section and Venture Capital and Private Equity Committee
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Former member of the Private Investment Funds Committee, the Committee on Securities Regulation and the Committee on Minorities in the Profession
  • Active in number of charitable organizations
  • Former Trustee of the Churchill School and Center in New York City
  • Former member of the Friends of Education Committee of the Museum of Modern Art
  • Former director of Associated Black Charities

Education

  • University of Colorado at Boulder, B.A., 1973
  • New York University School of Law, J.D., 1977

Lawyer Rankings

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

Dechert LLP is engaged primarily by private equity firms and investment advisers in the financial services space, where the team regularly receives fund formation, structuring, capital raising and regulatory mandates. The team works sponsor side on various fund types, with recent examples including buyout, private equity, private credit and venture capital. Practice head Omoz Osayimwese is active in the firms New York office and works primarily with private equity and credit funds clients on fund formations and their ongoing management. Further key members of the practice are Tricia Lee in Austin, who works with high value private equity, real estate and credit funds, Lindsay Trapp in Charlotte bolsters the teams offering on cross-border fund formation matters, particularly Irish funds, and Carl de Brito in New York, who has a well-established practice working with notable global private equity funds, asset management firms and financial institutions.