Proskauer Rose LLP

Nigel van Zyl

Nigel van Zyl is a partner and co-head of Proskauer's Private Funds Group at Proskauer. Nigel specializes in advising asset managers, institutional investors and investment advisors across the full spectrum of investment fund matters. Praised for his keen business sense and practical approach, Nigel advises leading international fund managers on all aspects of their fund business, including the formation, raising, maintenance and ongoing operation and compliance of their investment funds. He also advises on internal governance, compliance and organization, carried interest and co-investment arrangements, spinouts, re-organizations and restructurings. Nigel represents institutional investors, including fund of funds, sovereign wealth funds, and global asset managers, with respect to their investments into private equity and other alternative asset funds. Nigel also advises buyers and sellers of secondary fund interests and the structures used for these transactions, including synthetic secondary and co-investment structures.

Lucie Rose

Lucie Rose is a special funds counsel in Proskauer’s Corporate Department and a member of its Private Funds Group. She has extensive and up-to-date experience in advising both fund sponsors and asset managers on all aspects of fund formation and ongoing fund maintenance. This work spans a range of asset classes and fund generations, and encompasses both first-time funds and subsequent generations of funds. Lucie advises institutional investors on primary investments including those directed into co-investment and continuation vehicles, as well as supporting fund sponsors in relation to various liquidity solutions (including situations where a fund’s investment period has expired and it has little dry powder available to be called or recycled to support existing investments or investments limitations have been reached), or situations where the manager itself requires liquidity (including complex and innovative preferred equity structures which secure underlying fund management fee and carried interest income streams). Lucie has also worked on a range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of large portfolios of fund interests. Lucie is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and brings a global perspective to her work. Her early career experience as in-house lawyer for a prominent sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East provided her with a deep understanding of what clients need – and deserve – from their trusted advisers.

Bruno Bertrand-Delfau

Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Bruno has 20 years’ experience in private equity secondaries, spin-offs of management teams, GP led transactions, fund restructurings and fund or preferred equity financings, and has worked on many of the largest and most complex transactions in the market, both in Europe and in the U.S. Bruno also advises institutional investors, including fund of funds and pension funds in their primary investments in private equity funds.

Christopher Elson

Chris is a partner in Proskauer's Corporate Department and a member of its Private Funds Group. Chris advises fund managers on fundraising and fund structuring across a wide range of asset classes, including private equity, growth, venture capital and credit funds. He also advises sponsors on tailored liquidity solutions, internal governance, ongoing fund maintenance and compliance matters. Chris has experience in management spin-outs as well as the structuring of carried interest and employee co-investment incentive plans. He also advises a number of institutional investors on secondary transactions and primary investments.

Aranpreet Randhawa

Aranpreet is a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group in London. She advises European and international clients on the structuring, formation and operation of both open- and closed-ended investment funds across a range of strategies, including private equity, growth, infrastructure, and real estate. Aranpreet also counsels clients on spin-outs, co-investments, end of life restructurings, and carried interest and co-investment schemes.