Main Content Main Menu Investment Management Print PDF Overview With an emphasis on business-focused legal advice, we partner with our clients to offer unparalleled services throughout the entire fund life cycle, including structuring, formation and management. Our investment management practice serves fund sponsors across the globe with respect to the formation, offering and management of private funds and other alternative investment vehicles. Private Fund Sponsor Advisory and Transactional Representation The partners and other attorneys in our investment management group have focused primarily on advising private fund sponsors and have extensive experience with various types of U.S. and international investment funds and other pooled investment vehicles, and advising on or coordinating local counsel advice on new laws and regulation applicable to private funds and their managers. Our fund sponsor and "LP" representation work provides us with up-to-date developments on commercial terms and legal considerations across a range of fund types and industry focuses, including private equity, real estate, venture capital, hedge, credit (including mezzanine, senior loan and distressed), secondary, fund-of-funds, angel, film and infrastructure and renewable energy funds. Our investment management attorneys work collaboratively with our transactional, finance, tax and ERISA lawyers to deliver a coordinated, efficient solution to investment management legal needs. Private Fund Management Representation Our attorneys work closely with investment advisory firms providing counsel on a range of operational matters, including with respect to internal governance and organization, investment adviser compliance, carried interest and co-investment arrangements, spinouts, reorganizations and fund restructurings and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions. Our investment management practice works collaboratively with our transactional, finance, tax and ERISA lawyers to deliver a coordinated, efficient solution to investment management legal needs. Private Fund Investor Counselling Our attorneys also represents institutional investors around the globe, including sovereign wealth funds, state retirement systems and other state-owned pensions, family offices, corporations and other investors in private funds. These clients operate across a broad spectrum of alternative investment asset classes and strategies. We help structure "anchor" and "seed" investor terms and bespoke co-investment vehicles and platforms designed for a range of investment strategies and asset classes. Experience NEWS Sheppard Mullin Represents Canterbury Consulting Incorporated In Two New Funds 06.22.2020 Sheppard Mullin Represents Dallas-based Banner Oak Capital Partners in Two Funds Totaling $800 Million 06.26.2018 LEADERS Benedict O. Kwon Evan C. Williams ATTORNEYS RELATED PRACTICES RELATED INDUSTRIES Jump to Page HOME SITE MAP ATTORNEY ADVERTISING WEBSITE TERMS PRIVACY POLICY COOKIE AND ADVERTISING POLICY © 2021 SHEPPARD MULLIN By scrolling this page, clicking a link or continuing to browse our website, you consent to our use of cookies as described in our Cookie and Advertising Policy. If you do not wish to accept cookies from our website, or would like to stop cookies being stored on your device in the future, you can find out more and adjust your preferences here. Close