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Dechert LLP

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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.

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Key clients

  • MiddleGround Capital
  • Hercules
  • Voyager Partners
  • Performance Equity Management

Work highlights

  • Raising a third flagship middle market industrial/manufacturing buyout fund targeting US$ 1.2 billion of capital commitments for MiddleGround Capital.
  • Represented Hercules in establishing a new private credit fund in the venture lending space.
  • Assisted Voyager Ventures assess its investment risks and build out its compliance program.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Omoz Osayimwese

Other key lawyers

Tricia Lee, Lindsay Trapp, Carl de Brito, Timothy Spangler, Sonia Gioseffi