Experience

• Secondaries, Co-Investments and Other Transactions

  • Atlas Merchant Capital in the structuring of its investment in Ascensus, the largest independent recordkeeping services provider, third-party administrator, and government savings facilitator in the United States.
  • The Carlyle Group in the spin-out of its sub-Saharan Africa team.
  • The Carlyle Group in the spin-out of its Ireland team.
  • HarbourVest Partners in numerous direct co-investments in a variety of buyout and growth investments.
  • StepStone Group in its $80 million investment in a continuation vehicle managed by Qumra Capital, which acquired a strip of all portfolio assets of Qumra Capital I.

• Fund Formations

  • Carmel Partners in the formation of Carmel Partners Investment Fund VII, a $1.28 billion U.S. real estate fund.
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners in raising multiple venture capital funds, including in the formation of:
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners XIII, an $875 million early stages development fund.
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners Select IV, a $1.8 billion Lightspeed portfolio company fund.
  • Lightspeed Opportunity Fund, a $1.5 billion breakout companies fund.