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Jonathon Soler

Jonathon Soler

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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

United States • Investment fund formation and management

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Private equity funds (including venture capital)

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP‘s private funds practice contains within it a dedicated US private funds regulatory team which, particularly since the addition of former SEC employee Chris Mulligan in Washington DC to the group, is well positioned to handle SEC examinations as well as registration and compliance. Group head Jonathon Soler boasts deep asset management experience, emblematic of the wider group’s expertise advising clients across the spectrum of the asset management transactions, and the wider group often assists buyout and growth equity funds. Among Andrew Chizzik’s varied client roster are US-based sponsors in Europe and Europe-based sponsors in the US who the overall group also frequently advises. All practitioners mentioned are located in New York unless stated.
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Profile

Position

Co-Managing Partner of Weil and a partner in Weil’s U.S. Private Funds practice.

Career

Jonathon Soler is Co-Managing Partner of Weil and a partner in Weil’s U.S. Private Funds practice. Jonathon regularly represents sponsors of private investment funds in connection with the organization and operation of such funds, as well as providing sophisticated advice regarding carried interest sharing and other economic and governance issues. He also has counseled investment firms in connection with the sale of significant minority interests in their businesses to institutional investors. In addition, Jonathon represents certain institutional investors in connection with their investments in a variety of private investment funds. Jonathon’s representative clients include 22C Capital, Agellus Capital, Altas Partners, American Securities, Backcast Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Centre Partners, Crow Holdings, Crux Capital, Genstar Capital, Kainos Capital, OMERS Private Equity, Quad Partners, RA Capital, Sixth Street, Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArcPartners), Strattam Capital, Stripes Group, Terminus Capital Partners, TPG, Tritium and Trive Capital.

Education

Queens University School of Business (B.Com., Honours, 1995); Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 1998).

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Testimonials

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  • ‘True strategic advice. Not just legal counsel. Networking and introductions in the industry. Cross group collaboration. ’

    ‘Jonathon Soler helped with the fundamentals of setting up our business and helped advise objectively.'

Key clients

  • 22C Capital Agellus Capital, LLC Altamont Capital Partners Altas Partners LP American Securities LLC Backcast Partners Management BCI Brookfield Asset Management Centre Partners Management Cimarron Healthcare Capital LLC Cohesive Capital Partners Crow Holdings Capital Partners Genstar Capital Graycliff Partners LP Jadian Capital JLL Partners Kainos Capital Lee Equity Partners Madryn Asset Management Magnitude Capital

Work highlights

Advising Brookfield Asset Management on the final closing of its latest flagship global infrastructure fund, Brookfield Infrastructure Fund V. Having raised $30 billion for the strategy, including $28 billion for the Fund and approximately $2 billion in related co-investment vehicles.
Advised Crow Holdings on the final closing of Crow Holdings Realty Partners X, L.P., the firm’s largest fundraise to date.
Advised Lee Equity Partners, LLC on the final closing of Lee Equity Partners Fund IV, L.P. Fund IV was oversubscribed and including the General Partner commitment achieved its hard cap with total capital commitments of approximately $1.3 billion, exceeding the $1.0 billion target.