Private Funds
Chadbourne & Parke's lawyers provide entrepreneurial, pragmatic and proactive advice to the Firm’s private funds clients. Our experience covers fund formation, management structuring and deal execution across a broad range of fund classes, including buyout, venture capital, hedge, real estate, mezzanine, distressed and funds of funds. We have structured complex transactions throughout the world, with particular strengths in energy/infrastructure and emerging markets such as Latin America, the U.S. Hispanic market, Central and Eastern Europe, India, Turkey and the Middle East, as well as Canada.
Our private funds practice, based in New York, is supported by experienced attorneys in our 13 other worldwide offices. As a full-service firm, we strive to provide our clients with a “one-stop shop” in the private funds area. Our other complementary practice areas include U.S. and international taxation, employee benefits and ERISA, mergers and acquisitions, bank finance, securities and corporate governance, project finance, communications, real estate, litigation, insurance/reinsurance, bankruptcy and restructuring, intellectual property and trusts and estates. Attorneys in our private funds practice collectively speak ten languages, providing us special capabilities in support of our emerging markets clients.
Current Chadbourne partners include a founding member of a buyout fund that focuses on U.S. and Latin American middle market investments as well as a senior officer of a multi-billion dollar Europe-based hedge fund. As a result of our direct experience on the business side of the industry, we are in a better position to understand the market and creatively assist our clients in all aspects of fund development, from formation to investment to exit.
Value-added services that we have provided to our clients in the past include:
- introducing emerging management teams to significant capital sources
- notifying private fund buyers of investment opportunities from among our contacts and/or clients
- introducing potential investors to our private fund clients
- identifying placement agents for first-time funds
- organizing sector- and region-specific networking sessions to provide a forum for our clients to meet and mingle
- providing access to senior and mezzanine lenders
Representative Experience
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Investment in Undersea Cable Transmission System
Energy Investors Funds
Development loan to and equity investment in the developer of a 67-mile undersea cable transmission system from New Jersey to Long Island. This deal was named the 2005 “North America Infrastructure Deal of the Year” by Project Finance magazine.
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Food and Beverage Company Leveraged Buyout
OMERS Capital Partners
Leveraged buyout of Give and Go Holdings Corp., a North American baked goods company, by the private equity arm of a Toronto-based pension fund.
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Latin American Fund Formations
Southern Cross Group
Structure and formation of a Canadian private equity fund targeting investments in Latin America.
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Private Equity Investment
Citigroup Alternative Investments
Investment in a U.S.-based coal gasification company.
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Apartment Building Acquisitions
Apollo Real Estate Advisors
Acquisition of eight apartment buildings in the Bronx, New York, the first private financing of a Mitchell-Lama project.
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Eastern Europe Fund Formation
Icon Private Equity Partners
Structure and formation of a private equity fund targeting investments in Ukraine and Russia.
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Acquisition of Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants
Tenaska Power Fund
$1.6 billion acquisition of 3,145 megawatt power plants from Constellation Energy.
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Fast-Food Restaurant Acquisition
Core Value Partners
Acquisition of more than 200 Burger King® restaurants to create the largest fast-food franchise in the U.S. Hispanic market.
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Securitization of Royalty Payments from Investments by a Private Fund
Paul Capital Partners
$229 million securitization of pharmaceutical royalty payments from a portfolio of 23 biopharmaceutical products, medical devices and diagnostics.
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Hedge Fund Formation
Abdiel Capital
Structure and formation of a family of long-only hedge funds.
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