United States • Investment fund formation and management
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Private equity funds (including venture capital)

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP heads up a ‘highly skilled, knowledgeable, and a well-resourced team’ and asset management team which is equally skilled in traditional private equity and bespoke liquidity and capital solutions matters . Phillip Isom, Margery Neale, and Lior Ohayon in New York head up the team. Nathaniel Marrs has particular expertise assisting funds in the real estate, infrastructure and energy sectors in funds transactions. Elsewhere, Matthew Block in New York focuses on secondaries and other liquidity solutions focused transactions. Terence Rozier-Byrd, also in New York was added to the team from Akin in September 2024. Arash Farhadieh is key for investment strategies related to fund formation, such as fund restructurings, and counts private fund managers as significant clients.
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  • ‘Highly skilled, knowledgeable, and well-resourced team.’

  • ‘Team is professional, detailed, and highly responsive.’

  • ‘The team has been a consistent partner for us over a number of years. They have a deep bench.'

  • ‘They give consistent, timely legal advice and are commercial in their approach. They advise on risks, but also are cognizant of the need to also pose ways to mitigate those risks. They understand our business very well and are responsive.’

  • ‘It is a pleasure working with the firm's private funds group. They are top tier across all issues.'

  • 'Perhaps most notable and helpful is that when it comes to day-to-day fund management, whenever we have questions about how we achieve a given goal.’
  • 'The team is thoughtful, efficient and fast.'

Key clients

  • Alliance Consumer Growth, LLC
  • Apogem Capital
  • Aquiline Capital Partners
  • Arch Capital Group Ltd.
  • Assured Healthcare Partners LLC
  • Astorg Partners
  • Auldbrass Partners
  • Banneker Partners
  • Blue Water Energy
  • Breakwall Capital

Work highlights

Represented PAI Partners on €7.1 billion fundraise for its eighth flagship fund.
Represented Monarch Alternative Capital in the formation of Monarch Capital Partners VI (MCP VI), the sixth iteration of Monarch’s flagship closed-end fund, which closed at $4.7 billion.
Represented LS Power Group in the formation of its new $2.7 billion fund, LS Power Equity Partners V, L.P.

Lawyers

Practice head

Phillip Isom; Margery Neale; Lior J. Ohayon

Other key lawyers

Matthew Block; Arash Farhadieh; Laura Friedrich; Terence Rozier-Byrd

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