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Robin A. Painter is co-Chair of the Corporate Department and co-head of the Private Investment Funds Group. She has a global network of clients and contacts developed over her more than 20 years of experience in the private equity and venture capital industry. She advises fund managers, institutional investors and investment advisors on a broad range of issues, including structuring private investment funds, portfolio investments, spin-outs, secondary transactions, internal governance and divestments and distributions.

The majority of Robin’s practice involves representing sponsors in structuring private investment funds and funds of funds and representing U.S. and global institutional investors and investment advisors in the private equity field. She routinely supervises teams of lawyers that represent sponsors in structuring their funds and institutional investors, or their advisors, in their  investments across the alternative asset class.

Robin also represents large institutional investors, or their advisors, in connection with the acquisition and sale of secondary partnership interests, and she has been involved in several of the largest bulk purchases of partnership interests in the industry.

Over the last two years, Robin has managed teams of lawyers in fund structuring projects with capital commitments of well over $10 billion, and also has advised clients on significant secondary transactions, spin-outs and restructurings.

A frequent lecturer, author and industry board member, Robin takes an active role in the global private equity community. Some of her recent lecture topics have included:

  • The Impact of the New Administration on Venture Capital & Private Equity
  • Issues and Opportunities in the Secondary Market
  • New Horizons for Private Equity: Top GPs and LPs Tackle the New Reality
  • Raising Money From New LPs: What Does It Take

Private Equity International named Robin one of the “30 most influential lawyers in global private equity” and she is frequently recognized as a leader in the private equity field by national and global publications, including a Star ranking in Chambers USA. Robin has served as an Adjunct Professor or guest lecturer at leading law and business schools, including the Copenhagen Business School, MIT Sloan School and Boston College Law School. 

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Robin Painter on Private Investment Funds
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