Investment Funds: Private Equity: Secondaries
UK Guide 2025 : UK-wide
Band 2
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Provided by Ropes & Gray LLP
More than 100 lawyers at Ropes & Gray focus on serving clients in the investment management industry with every issue they might face—including fund formation and management, regulatory and compliance issues, fund distribution arrangements, mergers and restructurings, tax matters, securities enforcement and litigation. Our clients include the advisers and independent directors of many of the largest and best-known funds in the world. We represent more than 2,000 mutual funds, and investment firms ranging from start-up ventures to those with hundreds of billions under management.
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Chambers Review
Ropes & Gray offers clients considerable expertise in secondaries transactions. The team is adept at advising on international matters including recapitalisation, sales and restructuring.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The team has great knowledge of secondary market, deal terms and structuring matters."
"It is a highly creative team that is able to solve for novel, precedent-setting transaction structures."
"They are highly commercial and solutions-oriented."
"The team has great knowledge of secondary market, deal terms and structuring matters."
"It is a highly creative team that is able to solve for novel, precedent-setting transaction structures."
"They are highly commercial and solutions-oriented."
Notable Practitioners
Thomas Alabaster is noted for his experience in matters relating to private equity, secondaries and real estate funds. His areas of work include buyout fund structuring, advice on joint ventures and assistance with management issues.
"Thomas is very service-oriented and very knowledgeable about the market."
"Tom has a very good idea of the market trends, which is quite helpful when launching new funds or negotiating with LPs."
"Thomas is someone I would rate very highly as a funds partner in the UK."
"Thomas is very strong and commercial."