Ropes & Gray Adds Lawyer Peter Mugo to its Expanding Asset Management Team

Ropes & Gray today announced the appointment of Peter Mugo as counsel in its market-leading asset management practice.

Peter is a widely respected and skilled attorney whose practice focuses on global institutional investors in primary investments in funds, co-investments, and internal restructuring matters. His institutional investor practice has included representing some of the world’s largest pension plans and sovereign wealth funds, as well as statewide pension plans, retirement funds, and health systems. His fund/co-invest client base is similarly diverse, spanning across fund types including buyout, venture capital, credit, hedge and real assets.

Bryan Chegwidden, head of the firm's asset management group said, “We are continuing to see sustained demand from clients across fund types. Peter’s strategic approach, global mindset, and experience in direct and co-investment transactions, continuation funds, and other key areas of asset management allow us to continue to deliver best-in-class solutions to our valued clients.”

Peter is one of 15 private fund partners and counsel across the U.S., London, and Asia to either join Ropes & Gray or be promoted in the past 18 months, bolstering the firm’s global private funds offerings, known across the asset management industry for excellence in guiding clients in ambitious and complex fund work. Consistently recognized by Chambers USA for its outstanding work on fund formation, investment funds, hedge funds, investor representation, and regulatory & compliance, Ropes & Gray attorneys are strategically advising asset management firms on all aspects of their expanding businesses, and fund sponsors and fund investors on the full range of fund types and asset classes.