Laura Friedrich > Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is a popular choice for financial institutions and wealth managers, private equity sponsors and managers who praise the ‘highly knowledgeable and responsive team’ for their ‘strong representation across traditional product structures and the evolving product landscape’. The practice covers liquidity solutions including LP secondary transactions, GP-led transactions as well as fund formations and restructurings across diverse asset classes. New York based partners Phillip Isom and Lior Ohayon jointly lead the practice, with the former counting spin-out transactions and buyer and seller representation during secondaries transfers to some of his areas of expertise, and the latter focusing on private equity, credit, infrastructure and real estate funds, both on a national and a global level. Further key members of the department also based in New York include Arash Farhadieh who advises private funds across the US, Europe and other emerging markets, Laura Friedrich, who works with private equity, venture capital and hedge funds and Matthew Block, who is well versed in secondaries and liquidity solution focused transactions and joined the practice from Kirkland & Ellis LLP in August 2023. Chicago lawyer Nathaniel Marrs joined the team in April 2024, bringing with him a focus on funds investing in the infrastructure sector from his previous position at DLA Piper LLP (US).