Jamie Becker
Canada Guide 2025
Band 3 : Investment Funds: Fund Formation
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Band 3
About
Provided by Jamie Becker
Practice Areas
With a dedicated focus on private funds and pension fund investments, and deep experience in M&A, Jamie helps fund sponsors and institutional investors, including leading pension funds, realize their fund formation and investment objectives in North America and around the world.
Jamie advises fund sponsors in structuring and negotiating their pooled funds, separate account structures, and co-investment vehicles as well as their internal governance and economic arrangements. He also represents institutional investors on their investments in private equity funds, hedge funds and other alternative investments, both through pooled funds and separate account structures.
Jamie regularly acts for clients on co-investment transactions which involve institutional investors investing in a sponsor’s primary fund. His work also includes secondary transactions to buy or sell LP interests in private equity funds and GP-led secondary transactions.
Jamie also advises Canada’s largest pension funds, including CPP Investments and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, on multijurisdictional compliance and other aspects of structuring their investments and other activities around the world.
Professional Memberships
Canadian Bar Association
Publications
• 2023 & 2022 Private Equity Outlook
• Open-ended funds: a new way forward for private market funds, 2021
• Co-investments: continuation funds and other considerations, 2021
Chambers Review
Canada
Toronto-based Jamie Becker is recognised for his abilities in the formation and structuring of private equity funds.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Jamie is a strong technical lawyer with great attention to detail, but also very commercial."
"Jamie is excellent to work with on complex investments and structures."
"Jamie is a strong technical lawyer with great attention to detail, but also very commercial."
"Jamie is excellent to work with on complex investments and structures."
Articles, highlights and press releases
3 items provided by McCarthy Tétrault LLP
Open-ended funds: Pros and cons for GPs
Sharing insights from our experience with open-ended private market funds while representing general partners/sponsors and limited partners/investors in North America, the final chapter of our series on private market funds sets out pros and cons of leveraging this increasingly popular fund type.
Pros and cons of open-ended funds for LPs
Sharing insights from our experience with open-ended private market funds while representing general partners/sponsors and limited partners/investors in North America, this article in our series on open-ended private market funds sets out some pros and cons of leveraging this popular fund type.
Co-investments: continuation funds and other considerations
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, dealmaking activity has remained robust. In this article, we discuss issues we are encountering with some frequency now in the co-investment market in Canada and America, including the impact of continuation funds and the possibility of an exit to a SPAC.
Open-ended funds: Pros and cons for GPs
Sharing insights from our experience with open-ended private market funds while representing general partners/sponsors and limited partners/investors in North America, the final chapter of our series on private market funds sets out pros and cons of leveraging this increasingly popular fund type.
Pros and cons of open-ended funds for LPs
Sharing insights from our experience with open-ended private market funds while representing general partners/sponsors and limited partners/investors in North America, this article in our series on open-ended private market funds sets out some pros and cons of leveraging this popular fund type.
Co-investments: continuation funds and other considerations
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, dealmaking activity has remained robust. In this article, we discuss issues we are encountering with some frequency now in the co-investment market in Canada and America, including the impact of continuation funds and the possibility of an exit to a SPAC.
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