Mr Mike Suppappola > Proskauer Rose LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Mike Suppappola
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Mike Suppappola is a partner in Proskauer’s Private Funds Group who specializes in representing asset managers across the globe in all aspects of their business and operations, with a particular focus on fund formation and the structuring and execution of secondary transactions. Mike also counsels clients on co-investments, portfolio investments and day-to-day operational and regulatory matters.
He advises a broad spectrum of fund sponsors who pursue a variety of strategies and sectors across North America, Europe and Asia, including buyout, private credit, secondaries, distressed and special situations, growth equity, venture capital, real estate and funds-of-funds. After the fundraising period, Mike continues to serve as a trusted adviser throughout the lifespan of a fund, with a focus on general partner and management company internal governance and day-to-day operational issues.
Mike is widely recognized in the private funds industry for his extensive experience in representing secondary fund managers in connection with all aspects of their business, including fund formation, secondary transactions (including GP-led liquidity processes, private tender offers, tail-end sales and preferred equity transactions), primary investments and co-investments. He also provides ongoing advice to private fund managers and other investment advisers on legal and regulatory compliance with federal and state securities laws, with particular expertise on the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
An active member of the private funds community, Mike is frequently invited to lecture at industry events on business and regulatory topics. Mike has been published or quoted in numerous industry publications and treatises, including Private Equity International Modern Fundraiser, U.S. Private Equity Fund Compliance Companion, Private Equity International, Secondaries Investor, Private Funds Management, PE Manager, Compliance Intelligence and Regulatory Register.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
A ‘highly experienced, cohesive and super responsive team‘ at Proskauer Rose LLP acts for private funds and their advisors in fund raising across all types of funds, representing committed capital, and advising on primary investments. The firm’s prolific, global practice in this area is represented in the United States primarily by its offices in Boston and New York. At the former, three lawyers are part of the practice group’s leadership team: the ‘truly exceptional‘ Robin Painter
, who has great experience in advising fund managers and institutional investors in the private equity and venture capital space; Howard Beber, who ‘provides practical and actionable advice‘; and David Tegeler, another experienced name in fund formation, complex secondaries transactions, and asset manager M&A. Rounding out the team of four practice heads is New York-based Monica Arora, a specialist in advising sponsors on buyout, private credit, distressed debt, growth equity, real estate and infrastructure and energy funds. From the firm’s sizeable pool of lawyers in Boston, Mike Suppappola stands out for his secondaries funds practice, and Camille Higonnet is singled out for praise by clients.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- 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
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- 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 (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- 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
- 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
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- 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+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending