Jones Day is a trusted advisor to a major global secondaries manager. The team specialises in secondaries and is actively expanding its fund formation practice. John MacGarty comes highly recommended for his expertise across ‘full spectrum of private equity fund investment, co-investment and secondary investment work’. MacGarty co-heads the team alongside Hannah Rose, who has a steady workflow advising investors on their investments into private equity funds.
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Testimonials
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‘Jones Day are spectacular; the amount of senior partner attention they give is unmatched. They took one of the most difficult transactions and made the closing one of the most comfortable there could be.’
‘Hannah Rose is a stand-out partner, with exceptionally clear communication skills.’
‘John MacGarty is very responsive, helpful and willing to go above and beyond to support our business.’
- 'Phenomenal project management, the team stand out for its advice on large portfolio sales where there are many workstreams. The partners are very hands-on, and they also have a high-quality junior team.'
- 'The team have worked with us for many years and have done a fantastic job on all deal types. Particularly, we were impressed with them during the process of selling a large tail-end portfolio. They were efficient, timely and provided commercial and valuable advice through the process.'
- 'Hannah Rose and Jon MacGarty are very personable, knowledgeable and sensible lawyers. We value their pragmatic advice, approach to fees and their experience, which is why we have used them for many years and continue to come back to them, despite having many other law firms that we could use. '
Key clients
- Pantheon Ventures
- Adams Street Partners
- CDPQ
- Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC
- True Capital Ltd
- StepStone
- Summix Capital
- Goodstone Living Limited
Work highlights
Advising a global secondaries manager on the formation of European private equity and private credit funds targeting EUR 2 billion in commitments.
Advising an international manager on the formation of its flagship close-ended, pan-European value-add fund targeting EUR 2.5 billion in commitments.
Advised a global secondaries firm on the disposal of interests in over 100 private equity, credit and infrastructure funds managed by 40 GPs.
Practice head
John MacGarty; Hannah Rose