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Mr Joe Binder

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Position

Joe Binder is a corporate partner and a member of Debevoise’s Investment Management Group. His practice focuses on advising established and emerging sponsors on all aspects of private investment funds, including fund formation and ongoing fund and management company operations. Mr. Binder’s experience includes acting for clients such as Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, HarbourVest Partners, Crescent Capital Group, Stone Point Capital, Morgan Stanley, and One Rock Capital.

Mr. Binder first joined Debevoise as an associate in the tax and investment management groups in 2013, and later spent time as Associate General Counsel at Debevoise client, Sequoia Capital. He rejoined the firm as a counsel in 2022.

He earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School summa cum laude in 2013. Mr. Binder is the co-author of “A Model for Measuring the Expected Value of Assuming Tax-Partnership Liability,” an article published by the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law in 2013.

He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Northeastern Illinois University in 2008. Prior to law school, Mr. Binder worked as a communications consultant to nonprofit organizations in New York, Washington, D.C., and Chicago.

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United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)

The ‘sophisticated offering‘ in private equity funds at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is ‘particularly well-placed to provide expert support to clients across geographies and practice areas‘ and features a well-established fund formation team, as well as an investor-side practice that acts for institutional investors in private funds. Based in New York, Rebecca Silberstein and Lorna Bowen oversee the firm’s asset management practice globally and domestically, respectively, and head of the investor-side practice Jane Engelhardt focuses on representing clients in primary investments and secondary transactions. Jonathan Adler and Jason Auerbach are both recommended as ‘standout partners‘, and Justin Storms is another key name in New York, acting for several leading asset managers. The department also has representation at its Washington DC office, where Marc Ponchione heads the firm’s US investment management regulatory practice; and in San Francisco, where counsel Joe Binder and Andrew Ahern spearhead the offering to West Coast clients.

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