Overview
Carlton Fields represents sponsors and investors through all stages of the investment fund life cycle. Our counsel is multidisciplinary, drawing from the firm's corporate, finance, tax, real estate, regulatory, and other practices, which enables us to offer clients a wide range of legal services for all facets of their funds.
With an understanding of fund structures, securities, tax, and ERISA issues, we represent sponsors, investors, and other key participants at every stage of the fund and investment life cycle, including general partners, managers, gatekeepers, placement agents, and co-investors. We follow evolving trends in the domestic and global private equity markets and draw on our multidisciplinary practice areas to assist clients in structuring their pooled investment vehicles and acquiring, financing, and disposing of portfolio investments.
We advise fund sponsors on all fund matters, including the private offering process, initial fund structure through capitalization, term sheet negotiations, due diligence, and final closing procedures. Additionally, we advise sponsors on fund governance matters, such as general partner or manager removal, advisory committee approval rights, investor relations, marketing strategy, and investment period suspension or termination.
Our fund clients include real estate investment funds and REITs, distressed debt and asset funds, private equity and venture capital funds, buyout funds, and mezzanine and other credit funds. We also represent specialized strategy funds, cryptocurrency funds, funds of funds, secondary funds, co-investment funds, and privately placed variable life insurance and annuity funds.
We offer a broad range of resources to our fund clients, including regulatory and compliance, SEC enforcement, tax and ERISA planning and guidance, partnership and limited liability company structures, strategic investments, liquidity events, fund restructurings, and fund-level financings.
