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Winston Taylor

Winston Taylor

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United States • Investment fund formation and management

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Private equity funds (including venture capital)

Winston Taylor maintains a broad private funds practice, advising sponsors and institutional investors on fund formation and investment matters. The team acts for fund of funds, pension plans and family offices, with experience spanning structuring, fundraising and ongoing operations across buyout, venture, private credit and infrastructure strategies, with additional strength in secondaries and liquidity solutions. The team is led by Margaret Frey and Scott Naidech, who are active on buyouts, investments, joint ventures, and secondaries. Megan Devaney is active across a wide variety of asset classes, New York’s Beth Kramer handles fund structuring and compliance matters, and Bradley Mandel is a go-to for secondaries. Unless otherwise stated, the team operate from Chicago.      
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Testimonials

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  • ‘Scott Naidech and Jacqueline Hu are incredibly responsive and knowledgeable. I have worked with many fund attorneys and the Winston team does a great job and providing a high quality of work with efficient billing and quick turnaround. ’

  • ‘Scott Naidech is extremely high touch and very knowledgeable. He is always able to provide an answer to my questions or direct me to someone who can. I also appreciate his responsiveness and ability to manage expectations and process.

  • ‘Exceptionally talented funds team that is can also bring deep transactional and operational experience to the relationship. ’

  • ‘Scott Naidech, Paul Jezierny, Olga Loy and Brad Vaiana are the main contacts. Each of them offer a myriad of specialization and creative thinking when approach problems. We have the benefit of the Firm's funds, corporate, tax and transactional teams. It's a full team effort and we couldn't do what we do without them.’

Key clients

  • 57 Stars
  • ACON Investments
  • Adams Street Partners
  • AON Corporation
  • Cantor Fitzgerald
  • Corrum Capital Management
  • Engaged Capital
  • Everside Capital Partners
  • Falcon Investment Advisors
  • GCP Capital Partners
  • GMB Mezzanine Capital
  • Granite Creek Capital Partners

Work highlights

Advised GCP Capital Partners on the formation and closing of a single-asset continuation vehicle involving ALKEME Insurance, backed by institutional investors including Apollo S3.
Advised Granite Creek Capital Partners on SBIC licensing, regulatory compliance, and fund formation for Granite Creek III, a $350M fund focused on lower middle market investments.
Represented Prophet Equity in forming a continuation fund for its first fund, providing liquidity and rollover options for investors across four remaining portfolio companies.
Practice head

Margaret Frey; Scott Naidech

Other key lawyers

Megan Devaney; Beth Kramer; Bradley Mandel; Alan Roth; Jacqueline Hu; Paul Jezierny; Olga Loyl Brad Vaiana