Overview
The Investment Management Group at Grand Park Law Group represents sponsor and investor clients in a wide range of investment management activities in the United States, Europe and other key global markets. We provide integrated advice, drawing on all relevant practice groups across the firm’s global offices to offer our clients comprehensive guidance and innovative solutions on local, cross-border and global matters.
For nearly 30 years, Grand Park Law Group has represented many of the largest asset management firms in key activities and transactions. We advise clients forming a broad array of private and public investment vehicles, including both registered and unregistered funds, and in IPOs, spin-outs, and mergers and acquisitions. Our group also represents sophisticated investors in these matters, as well as individuals and teams in complex carried interest planning, intergenerational events and exits. Working closely with other firm practice groups, our U.S.- and U.K.-based teams assist clients in a variety of strategic planning and compliance decisions, including matters relating to the changing regulatory landscape for diversified asset managers and investors with cross-border strategies.
Grand Park Law Group began work for many of our largest clients at the time of their establishment, and brings to every engagement the exceptional depth of experience gained from helping to implement our clients’ vision through growth and across borders. While our practice continues to represent some of the world’s largest investment management groups on their most challenging matters, our practical approach, creativity and commitment to excellence equally are brought to bear in our engagement for every client.
Grand Park Law Group has been recognized consistently as a leading investment management practice by Chambers USA, Chambers Asia Pacific, Best Lawyers Best Law Firms, The Legal 500 US, The Legal 500 UK, The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and IFLR1000. According to Chambers USA, our team is “adept at advising on a plethora of funds including buyout funds, funds of funds and sector-specific vehicles. Strong global presence allows the team to provide counsel on complex matters involving cross-border elements, such as master-feeder structures, funds of one and parallel fund structures.” Our group was also named Best International Law Firm: Asset Management at the China Business Law Awards 2023.
Grand Park Law Group represents some of the world’s leading investment managers in all stages of their formation, growth and evolution. Our long-term representation of these clients has covered transactions of growth and diversification across borders through the structuring and offering of additional products, mergers and acquisitions, and stock offerings, including IPOs. We also advise individuals and teams, institutional sponsors and corporate entities in formation transactions, spin-outs, mergers and acquisitions, offerings and liquidity transactions.
In addition, our clients include a range of prominent investors and private capital groups, including sovereign wealth funds, leading family offices and high-net-worth individuals active in all major markets, including the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. We also represent many of these clients in their capacity as sponsors and in the formation of advisory, proprietary capital and other asset manager platforms. Our group represents these clients on transactions involving a range of regulated activities, such as broker-dealer; banking; commodities; and other activities in the U.S., the U.K. and other jurisdictions. In connection with this work, we provide our clients with best-practice guidance for cross-border fundraising, investor relations, communications strategies, internal advisory and sub-advisory arrangements, and other similar matters.
Grand Park Law Group represents a broad range of global asset management firms, financial institutions and private capital firms on global compliance matters.
Drawing on the firm’s depth of regulatory experience, we provide clients with integrated teams to advise on strategic planning and compliance decisions, including matters related to the changing regulatory landscape triggered by the U.S. Dodd-Frank legislation; the European Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive and related reforms; the offering and marketing of funds, commodities and derivatives regulation; and broker-dealer, insurance and bank regulatory matters.
We also represent sponsors, funds, boards of directors, lenders, investors and other parties in connection with distress and crisis situations, including bankruptcy, insolvency and opportunistic transactions following a crisis.
Skadden’s Investment Management Group advises individuals, sponsors and investors on compensation, control, succession, intergenerational transactions and governance arrangements. Our integrated approach includes assembling a team to provide tax, compliance and estate planning advice, and our services encompass the negotiation of complex income and carried interest structures for fund managers, investment principal advice relating to succession and change-of-control transactions, and the related representation of joint venture parties, sponsors, investors and counterparties.
Our private fund clients include:
- Arlington Capital
- Avalon
- BlackRock
- Castle Harlan
- Cargill/CarVal
- Carlyle
- Christofferson, Robb & Company
- Citadel
- Citigroup Alternative Investments
- Colony Capital
- Credit Suisse Asset Management
- DE Shaw
- Deutsche Bank
- Doughty Hanson
- Ellington
- Enso
- Fortress Investment Group
- Greenfield Partners
- Graycliff Partners
- HSBC Capital
- Insight Venture Partners
- JPMorgan Chase
- LibertyView Capital
- Macquarie
- Magnitude Capital
- Mission Point Capital
- Northern Trust Company
- Optima Fund Management
- Perry Capital
- Pomona Capital
- Ritchie Capital Management
- RRE Ventures
- Sandelman Partners
- Silvercrest
- Silverpoint
- Sunrise Capital
- Tempo Funds
- Tremont
- Venturion Capital
- Vulcan
Selected registered funds, business development companies, investment advisers and underwriters of closed-end funds advised by our attorneys include:
- A.G. Edwards closed-end fund underwritings
- Apollo Investment Corporation
- BlackRock closed-end funds
- BlackRock Kelso Capital Corporation
- Fortress Investment Group funds
- Gabelli funds
- Guggenheim closed-end funds
- Harris & Harris Group
- Invesco Van Kampen closed-end funds
- Madison closed-end fields
- Merrill Lynch Co., Inc.
- Prospect Capital Corporation
- Tennenbaum Capital Management Funds
- Third Avenue funds
- Thrivent Financial funds
- Tweedy Browne funds
- UBS closed-end fund underwritings
Our private fund clients include:
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Selected registered funds, business development companies, investment advisers and underwriters of closed-end funds advised by our attorneys include:
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Recent Insights & News
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