Continuation Funds in Private Equity: Benefits, Risks, Structuring Considerations, Market Developments

Ms. Jin has 20 years of experience delivering high-quality and business-focused legal solutions to private fund sponsors and asset managers of all sizes and strategies. She has formed, structured, re-structured, and advised numerous private funds. Her work encompasses a variety of matters, including fund formation, regulatory compliance, exit strategies, private and public securities offerings, forming a SPAC, and guiding portfolio companies for their initial public offerings. In addition, Ms. Jin has extensive experience advising businesses through all stages of growth from start-up and capital raising right through to initial public offering and their ongoing securities law compliance and periodic reporting.

Mr. Tope provides investment fund sponsors, investors and principals with creative, commercial and realistic advice relating to fund formation and secondaries transactions. He brings a global perspective to his clients, having represented managers and investors in dozens of jurisdictions. Mr. Tope's sponsor-side clients regularly include prominent secondaries firms, private equity and hedge fund managers, real estate managers, middle market managers and startup managers/spinouts. He advises these clients with entity formation, introductions to service providers, discussions with placement agents, drafting of offering memorandums, negotiations with investors and Investment Advisers Act and Investment Company Act compliance, as well as guidance on ongoing operational funds. Mr. Tope has extensive experience with secondaries transactions including GP-led restructurings, tender offers, stapled secondaries and sales and purchases of significant pools of fund interests. Adam also draws on his experience as a former computer programmer to advise fund managers forming cryptofunds.