Profile
Position
Partner / UK Co-Chair
Career
Ajay Pathak is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity group. Mr. Pathak’s practice focuses on the establishment, management and regulation of private equity funds, venture funds, credit funds, infrastructure funds, hedge funds, and other alternative investment funds. He has established a number of funds, managed accounts, and other bespoke investment structures, including open-ended and hybrid structures, across a range of asset classes.
He also advises on secondaries, GP stake sales, spin-outs, establishment of new asset management businesses, seeding arrangements, joint ventures, partnership matters, co-investment arrangements, and incentive schemes.
Education
Legal Practice Course, 1996, College of Law London
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Testimonials
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‘Ravi Chopra is a very calm, collected and astute practitioner who is not afraid to embrace complexity in a commercial and technically sound manner.’
‘The team is very commercial and effectively acts and thinks as if they were a full-time member of our investment team. Very reliable, safe pair of hands in various contexts.’
‘Even more junior lawyers are very mature and are able to act as if they are partners. I have had a particularly good experience working with Ravi Chopra, Andrew Pollock. They are also very knowledgeable in the field of secondaries, and this is their bread and butter.’
‘John Anderson works tirelessly to keep his clients happy. Likes to brainstorm creative solutions.’
‘John Anderson - smart, practical and easy to work with.’