Ms Victoria Forrester > Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Offices
1285 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10019-6064
NEW YORK
United States
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Ms Victoria Forrester
Position
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Education
LL.B., Stellenbosch University
with distinction
Bachelor of Commerce, Stellenbosch University
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP fields a private funds group that has a strong track record advising on all aspects of the growth and development of private equity managers. The practice group is well-versed in issues across the private equity fund lifecycle and is instructed in both day-to-day decision making and in the most significant business-defining matters. Marco Masotti is co-chair of the firm’s global private funds practice, and leads its private equity fundraising work, drawing on longstanding experience as an adviser to a wide variety of private investment funds. He continues to lead on a high volume of fund launches. Victoria Forrester has led or co-led a number of ground-breaking fund launches, including for Apollo Global Management, Centerbridge, KKR and Värde Partners; and Matthew Goldstein is a further key name, advising on investments in private equity, formation of secondaries platforms, and continuation vehicles. Amran Hussein is an up-and-coming partner who acts across formation, launch and operation matters; Conrad van Loggerenberg has a broad practice in fund formation and operation; and Lindsey Wiersma assists with fund formation issues, regulatory matters, management company arrangements, seeding arrangements and secondary transactions. All above named lawyers are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Industry focus > Sport
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: plaintiff
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)