Jonathan Karen
Global Guide 2024
Band 2 : Private Equity: Fund Formation
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+1-212-455-3274Share profile
Band 2
About
Provided by Jonathan Karen
Practice Areas
Corporate Partner that has led recent efforts in industry’s most successful and market-defining private equity fund formations across multiple asset classes, including buyout, real estate and infrastructure. Notable formations include Blackstone’s most recent flagship opportunistic global real estate, corporate private equity and core private equity funds, and Silver Lake, Stonepeak Infrastructure, Rockpoint Real Estate and Centerbridge Partners in each of their flagship and ancillary funds. Jonathan also counsels investment firms on a mix of matters involving private investment funds, including stake sales, liquidity solutions, internal economic arrangements for private fund sponsors, joint ventures and spin-outs, regulatory compliance, M&A transactions and strategic investments involving private fund sponsors.
Career
Joined Firm, 2001; Partner, 2011.
Personal
B.A., cum laude, Duke University (1998); J.D., New York University School of Law (2001).
Chambers Review
Global
Jonathan Karen is known for his extensive understanding of launching infrastructure, credit, energy and real estate funds.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Jonathan is a really great lawyer."
"Jonathan is a really great lawyer."