Christopher Robinson > Proskauer Rose LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Christopher Robinson

+1.212.969.3676 [email protected]

Work Department

Corporate; Private Funds

Position

Christopher C. Robinson is co-head of Proskauer’s Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions practice and a partner in the Private Funds Group. Named as a 2024 private equity MVP in Law360, and as a finalist for ‘Dealmaker of the Year’ by New York Law Journal, he primarily focuses his practice on representing buyers and sellers, as well as market intermediaries, in connection with complex secondary transactions, including traditional sales and purchases of fund interests, secondary direct transactions, captive fund spin-out arrangements, fund recapitalizations and restructurings and “stapled” secondary transactions.

In addition, he regularly represents sponsors of, and institutional investors in, private investment funds, including buyout, energy, credit, mezzanine, healthcare, real estate, venture capital, special situation and secondary funds, as well as separate and other managed accounts.

Christopher has significant experience with a diverse group of private investment firms and select representative sponsor clients include Avego Healthcare Capital, Brightwood Capital Advisors, Core Capital Partners, DFW Capital Partners, FLVCRUM, Greycroft Partners, Havencrest Capital Management, Inovia Capital, LNC Partners, Melkonian Capital,  New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Palladium Equity Partners, RLJ Equity Partners, Skyview Capital, Spindletop Capital, SV Health Investors, WestCap and Vesey Street Capital Partners, among others.

In addition, Christopher represents some of the most active secondary investors in the market, and select representative “buy-side” clients include 50 South Capital, Apollo Global Management (Sponsor and Secondary Solutions/S3), Ares/Landmark Partners, Arrowhead Management, Atalaya Capital, BentallGreenOak (BGO), Blackstone (Strategic Partners),  Churchill Asset Management, Commonfund Capital, CPP Investments (CPPIB), FlowStone Partners, Glendower Capital, Hollyport Capital, Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), J.P. Morgan, Lexington Partners, Neuberger Berman, Pantheon, Partners Group, Portfolio Advisors and W Capital, among others.

Prior to joining Proskauer, Christopher was a corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP.