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Geoffrey Kittredge
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Work Department
Investment funds and private equity.
Position
Partner in the firm’s London office, focuses his practice on private equity and investment fund formation. Mr Kittredge represents a broad range of international private equity and other private investment funds and their sponsors, including leveraged buyout, mezzanine, real estate and secondaries funds, as well as funds of funds.
Career
Qualified 1997; Debevoise & Plimpton 1996 to date; international counsel 2003-05; partner 2005 to date. Mr Kittredge was a significant contributor to ‘The Debevoise & Plimpton European Private Equity Handbook’ (2005) and regularly contributes to ‘The Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report’, including articles on ‘Spinouts of Private Equity Funds’, ‘UK Freedom of Information Act Could Spell Trouble for Private Funds’, ‘Advisory Committees in US and European Private Equity Funds’ and ‘Emerging Markets Shine in a Difficult Year’. Recent representations include: Baring Vostok in the establishment of its Russian private equity funds; Deutsche Bank in the establishment of its secondary opportunity funds; Doughty Hanson in the establishment of its European buyout, real estate and technology funds; Exponent Private Equity in the establishment of its UK buyout funds; Park Square in the establishment of its European mezzanine and credit opportunities funds; SUN-Apollo in the establishment of a $630m India real estate fund.
Education
University of Virginia (1984 BA political philosophy and English literature); Colombia University (1992 MBA finance and business economics); New York University (1996 JD).
