At any stage of a fund’s life cycle, from formation and early capital deployment to growth financings, leveraged buyouts, fund marketing, and recapitalizations, our private equity fund formation team is ready to assist you with all your due diligence and transactional needs – whether you’re looking at complex fund structures, sidecars and co-investment vehicles, parallel funds, master-feeder structures, or innovative forms of alternative investments. We provide practical, forward-looking, actionable counsel not only to financial institutions and fund sponsors but also to institutional investors, family offices, endowments, and foundations. This includes marshaling teams throughout Alston & Bird to advise you on a multitude of issues, ranging from tax, executive compensation, ERISA, and labor matters to intellectual property, real estate, and environmental law.
Our work spans a wide array of sectors, including venture, private equity, private credit, infrastructure, data storage, microprocessor businesses, biopharmaceutical, cable systems and fiber networks, timberland and agricultural strategies, digital asset and crypto, and such medical technologies as endoscopy services. And in the process of leveraging our industry-spanning experience, we’ve worked with clients across borders, creating, for example, international closed- and open-ended funds as part of complex investment platforms.
We’ve represented private equity and credit fund sponsors in private placements to institutions and high-net-worth investors. And with years of experience negotiating and structuring innovative investment vehicles, we’re able to offer you valuable insights into not only current market terms but emerging trends, allowing you to respond competitively and profitably to changes in the marketplace.
And we can guide you through a host of complex regulatory issues as you look to navigate such legislation as the Investment Advisers Act, Securities Act, Commodity Exchange Act, Investment Company Act, and Dodd–Frank Act.