Senior Associate - Private Funds & Secondaries

Job description

We have an opportunity for an experienced Senior Associate/ Counsel to join our Private Funds and Secondaries practice. Practice Summary: Freshfields’ private funds and secondaries team is part of the firm’s global private capital practice. The team’s focus is on sponsor-side fund formation across all types and strategies, LP primary investments and co-investments and secondary transactions. Our secondaries experience includes GP-led continuation fund transactions and portfolio sales, GP-staking transactions and liquidity transactions such as preferred equity deals and NAV financings. Private Funds and Secondaries: We act for a wide variety of private capital clients and fund managers across the full range of strategies and asset types in connection with their fund formation, LP primary investment and secondaries activities. With respect to primary fundraising, we advise primarily on closed-end funds, but also on evergreen and open-end funds, in each case targeting institutional investors. We also advise on client executive and management arrangements and incentivisation. Our lawyers can either work in very small or very large teams which will frequently include colleagues from oth...