Dechert LLP advises a variety of fund clients ranging from sovereign wealth funds to small-cap and emerging funds, as well as private credit funds and different private investment companies. The group stands out for its fund formation work on the sponsor side is highly active in fund formation. Team leader Omoz Osayimwese in New York stands out for these sponsor side fund formation matters, primarily with private equity and credit funds clients on fund formations and their ongoing management, as well as in transactions such as joint ventures. Based in Austin Tricia Lee is well known for her work in for large-cap funds with valuations in the billions. Gerald Brown joined the team in New York from Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP and has bolstered the group the formation of closed-end funds.
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Key clients
- MiddleGround Capital
- Hercules
Work highlights
Representing MiddleGround Capital in multiple matters, including raising a third flagship middle market industrial/manufacturing buyout fund.
Representing Hercules Capital as the lender of choice for innovative entrepreneurs and their venture capital partners in establishing a new private credit fund in the venture lending space, and are currently representing them in establishing an additional evergreen private credit fund.
Lawyers
Practice head
Omoz Osayimwese
Other key lawyers
Tricia J. Lee; Sonia Gioseffi; Gerald Brown