Clifford Chance’s Funds & Investment Management team advises sponsors and institutional investors across the fund lifecycle, with a particular emphasis on credit, real estate and infrastructure vehicles alongside secondaries funds, GP-led solutions and GP stakes mandates. Headed by Alexandra Davidson, the group supports structuring, formation and marketing as well as ongoing operational, tax and regulatory needs, and is frequently engaged on complex leverage and fund finance features that sit alongside private credit strategies. The practice is further strengthened by the firm’s cross-border platform, enabling coordinated US and international fundraising across key jurisdictions and asset classes for global managers and sovereign-backed investors. Clifford Cone, Michael Sabin and Daniel Drabkin are no longer with the firm.
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Key clients
- Alignment Debt Holdings
- Avila Real Estate Capital
- Blue Owl
- Cantor Fitzgerald
- CAIS
- Capital Dynamics Ltd.
- Cathay Capital
- DF Capital
- DWS (RREEF)
- Five Arrows (Rothschild)
- J.P. Morgan Asset Management
- Mercer
- MHR Fund Management
- Montecito Medical Real Estate
- Northwind Group
- Nuveen
- Oxford Finance
- Partners Group
- PineBridge
- Power Sustainable
Work highlights
Nuveen Green Capital on the formation and fundraise of Nuveen C-PACE Lending Fund III, which had its final close in October 2025 on $985 million.
TCW Group on the formation and fundraise of TCW Rescue Financing Fund II.
PPC Enterprises on the latest close of its evergreen flagship private equity fund, Public Pension Capital LLC, on $479 million in new commitments, bringing the fund's aggregate capital over $1.5 billion.
Practice head
Bill Sturman; Alexandra Davidson
Other key lawyers
Charles Tanenbaum
