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Mr Daniel Drabkin
Position
Daniel Drabkin is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Funds and Investment Management group, based in New York. Daniel specializes in the representation of sponsors in all aspects of fund formation, structuring, marketing and operating alternative investment funds, with significant experience in real estate, private credit, private equity and fund-of fund strategies. Daniel also represents institutional investors in negotiating LP-side investments into funds, co-investments and other managed accounts, and has significant experience with secondaries transactions (both buy-side and sell-side) involving the purchase and sale of mature fund interests.
Daniel has a broad spectrum of legal experience, having previously worked in-house as corporate counsel to a public real estate and investment management firm.
Education
McGill University (B.A.) 2006
McGill University Faculty of Law (LL.B., B.C.L.) 2009
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2010
Partner since 2021
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
Notable US-based asset managers, including Apollo Global Management, Blackstone Credit and TCW Asset Management are key clients for the Clifford Chance private funds group, with the team frequently advising on credit fund formations, real estate debt funds, GP-led restructurings and secondary transactions mandates. The New York-based team is especially strong on cross-border mandates is jointly led by credit funds and real estate focused funds expert Michael Sabin and Clifford Cone, who works on fund formations across hedge, private equity and registered funds for the firms major clients. Further key practitioners in this space are Susan Burkhardt who is praised by clients as being ‘top tier for debt funds’, and Daniel Drabkin who is well regarded for his work with private credit secondaries funds. Enoch Varner joined the firm’s Houston office in June 2023 from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Tax > Financial products
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Tax > International tax
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)