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Stephenson Harwood's practice which assists a number of clients in secondaries sector across a variety of European jurisdictions. Practice head Gabriel Boghossian is known for his vast experience in advising on secondary transactions, having handled the structuring and negotiation of a high volume of GP-led deals. Sarah de Ste Croix has broad knowledge of fundraisings.

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Key clients

  • Ufenau Capital Partners
  • Deutsche Private Equity
  • Tesco Pension Trustees Limited
  • Five Arrows (Rothschild)
  • Horizon Capital
  • Capiton AG
  • Verium AG
  • Schroders Capital
  • EMERAM Capital Partners
  • Northleaf Capital
  • Kline Hill Partners
  • BVK Personalvorsorge des Kantons Zürich
  • Shard Credit Partners Limited
  • Unigestion SA
  • Railpen Pension Trustee Company Limited
  • LifeArc

Work highlights

  • Advised Ufenau, a Swiss private equity fund, in their GP-led secondaries transaction selling Altano and Corius from Ufenau's fifth fund to a newly established continuation vehicle.
  • Advised Deutsche Private Equity, in their inaugurate GP-led secondary transaction, selling two leading European technology and digital transformation consultancies acquired by DPE's third fund to a newly established continuation vehicle.
  • Acted for TPTL in connection with its sale of a portfolio of 47 limited partnership interests.

Lawyers

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Gabriel Boghossian

Gabriel Boghossian

Stephenson Harwood

Gabriel is the head of Stephenson Harwood's market leading secondaries practice. Gabriel has particular market recognition for his work in complex private equity secondaries transactions and has extensive experience advising sponsors and buyers on secondaries transactions designed to provide liquidity to GPs and investors. Gabriel advises on the full range of transactions, including traditional and synthetic portfolio secondaries, preferred equity and GP-led continuation vehicles; his practice includes minority stakes sales, direct co-investments and other transactional matters. Gabriel has been recognised in in Legal Week’s most recent “40 under 40” private equity list and is recommended by The Legal 500 UK 2022 as well as Chambers UK 2022 specifically for his expertise in Secondaries deals.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Gabriel Boghossian

Other key lawyers

Sarah de Ste Croix