Martin Hipkins

Martin joined Ropes & Gray in 2018 and is a member of the asset management group. Martin focuses his practice on private investment funds spanning the buyout, growth equity, venture capital, impact investing and credit fund spaces. Martin advises fund sponsors in connection with fundraising, structuring, governance, operational and regulatory matters. Martin also counsels leading institutional investors (including university endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and funds of funds) in their primary investments, LP-led secondaries, GP-led recapitalizations and co-investments.

All of this involves deep and continued involvement in the many aspects of clients’ operations and negotiations with counterparties during which Martin seeks to harness the firm’s broad view of the private funds market to provide practical insight and business-oriented advice to clients.