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McDermott Will & Emery LLP Offices

340 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10173-1922
NEW YORK
United States
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Ian Schwartz

Work Department
Corporate Advisory
Position
Ian M. Schwartz focuses on the formation and operation of private equity funds. As head of the Firm’s Investment Funds Group, Ian is highly skilled in counseling private fund clients in connection with the structuring of fund investments and provides advice on legal and regulatory compliance matters for funds and their investment advisers. He also assists fund sponsors in connection with the organization and documentation of their internal firm arrangements.
Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/schwartz-ian-m/
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
McDermott Will & Emery LLP‘s ‘practical and business-minded’ team represents European funds and sovereign wealth funds, from fundraises to fund closures, and often acting in complex negotiations with a range of institutional international investors. Lauren Nevidomsky and David Nestler, who are ‘major experts in their fields of private equity fundraising’ head up the team, and Nestler in particular has been a significant part of the group’s increasing activity for middle-market funds. Practice head Ian Schwartz has been instrumental in building the fund formation practice, often acting as go-to advisor for boutique sponsors and institutional investors which require complex strategies. Luc Jansen, who is renowned for his broad private equity client base, is another key name to note. All named practitioners are located in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Tax > Financial products
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Government > Government contracts
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense