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Ms Robin Painter

Work Department
CORPORATE
Position
Robin A. Painter is a partner and the global co-head of Proskauer’s Private Funds Group. She has previously served as co-head of Proskauer’s corporate department. She has a global network of clients and contacts developed over her more than 30 years of experience in the private equity and venture capital industry. She advises fund managers, institutional investors and investment advisors on a broad range of issues, including structuring private investment funds, portfolio investments, spin-outs, secondary transactions, internal governance and divestments and distributions.
The majority of Robin’s practice involves representing sponsors in structuring private investment funds and funds of funds and representing U.S. and global institutional investors and investment advisors in the private equity field. She routinely supervises teams of lawyers that represent sponsors in structuring their funds and institutional investors, or their advisors, in their investments across the alternative asset class.
Robin also represents large institutional investors, or their advisors, in connection with the acquisition and sale of secondary partnership interests, and she has been involved in several of the largest bulk purchases of partnership interests in the industry.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
(Hall of Fame)Proskauer Rose LLP‘s leading multi-disciplinary team is widely known for its sole focus on representing the most notable private funds and their advisors. Over a recent twelve month period alone, the department raised over 300 funds and bespoke investor vehicles of all types – representing over $115bn in target commitments – and assisted with more than 640 primary investments and co-investments. The group advises a significant segment of the secondary market and is an extremely active participant in the credit fund space, as well as fielding dedicated specialists in US and UK regulatory, compliance and enforcement matters with a nexus to private investment funds. Leadership of the practice is split between the Boston and New York offices; Howard Beber, Robin Painter and David Tegeler are based at the former location, while Monica Arora oversees matters from the latter. The US offering is also able to leverage the firm’s international presence – which spans key locations in London, Hong Kong and Sao Paolo – to provide a seamless service to global clients.
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
(Hall of Fame)Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame - United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Hall of Fame - United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Private equity funds (including venture capital) - United States > Investment fund formation and management
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Tax > Financial products
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to policyholders
- 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)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- Industry focus > Healthcare: service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- 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
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings