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Ms Monica Arora
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Monica Arora is a partner and co-head of the Private Funds Group at Proskauer.
Monica advises asset managers across the full spectrum of investment fund matters. Her particular expertise concentrates within the areas of buyout, private credit, distressed debt, growth equity, infrastructure and real estate funds, including the establishment of bespoke fund structures, joint ventures and other strategic arrangements for sponsors globally.
Monica is a thought leader in the industry. She is also a prominent and engaged member of the private funds community, including as a committee member and contributor on the New York City Bar Association’s Private Investment Funds Committee and a member of the Editorial Board of Law 360 Private Equity.
Monica’s leadership in Proskauer extends well beyond her role in the department as she is a key member of numerous diversity and inclusion initiatives. She is also actively engaged in a number of charitable boards outside of the firm.
Prior to joining Proskauer, Monica was the global head of the investment funds group at White & Case.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
Proskauer Rose LLP‘s private investment funds practice is praised by clients for its ‘deep bench and terrific expertise on both fund formation and regulatory work’. The team advises on the structuring and maintenance of private funds, among which are buyout, growth equity, credit and funds of funds, as well as having a particular strength in secondaries transactions and expertise across related tax and regulatory matters. Monica Arora and Howard Beber jointly lead the US based private funds group, with the former being based in New York and specializing on sponsor side advice to funds across diverse asset classes while the latter sits in Boston and focuses on private fund formation, secondaries transactions, including GP-led transactions. Other key names in Boston include venture capital and growth equity fund formation expert Robin Painter, David Tegeler, who is well versed in secondaries transactions and asset manager M&A deals and secondary fund liquidity solutions specialist Mike Suppappola. Credit funds specialist Chip Parsons and secondaries attorney Christopher Robinson are key members of the team based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending