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Private Investment Funds
Ropes & Gray has one of the largest and most sophisticated private investment fund practices in the country. The success of our practice is based on three tenets: - Our purpose is to help clients to make intelligent investments on intelligent terms. To this end we are constructive in all our dealings with others.
- We are committed to excellence in service by being responsive to client needs and understanding the time sensitive nature of opportunities.
- We work constantly to develop our practice through innovation to provide our clients with access to leading-edge solutions and strategies.
Building on these values, we bring an unsurpassed depth of experience and a distinctive approach to provide astute advice and assessments of risk, practical solutions, and first-class service for our clients. Fund Formation We have organized the full range of private investment funds, from leveraged buyout funds, to venture capital funds, to funds of funds, to CDO funds, to hedge funds, to mezzanine funds. We also have organized specialized funds in the natural resources and energy, technology, and health fields. Structuring these funds requires not only an intimate familiarity with the relevant securities and investment company rules, but also a significant amount of tax, ERISA, and industry knowledge. We also have substantial experience in structuring and organizing offshore funds and in solving complex problems involved in structuring the internal management of sponsors. Our expertise is continually reinforced by our comprehensive database of current market terms assembled through review of private equity funds on behalf of institutional investors. We are able to quickly identify significant issues and formulate practical solutions given our extensive expertise in dealing with the structuring of the internal management of fund sponsors. Investments in Funds The firm represents a significant number of university endowments, foundations, funds of funds, pension funds, and other institutional investors in connection with their investments in hundreds of private equity, mezzanine, venture, CDO, hedge, and other funds with a total committed capital of over $600 billion. As a result of our fund formation work and representation of many of the nation’s major funds investors, we review and analyze virtually every premier fund that comes to market. Years of experience enable us quickly to identify significant issues and to formulate practical solutions to complex tax, ERISA, and other problems facing a potential investor. For further information on our Private Investment Funds Practice, please contact:
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