Bruno Bertrand-Delfau is a partner in the Private Funds Group.
Bruno has 20 years’ experience in private equity secondaries, spin-offs of management teams, GP led transactions, fund restructurings and fund or preferred equity financings, and has worked on many of the largest and most complex transactions in the market, both in Europe and in the U.S.
Bruno also advises institutional investors, including fund of funds and pension funds in their primary investments in private equity funds.
Bruno is recognized as a ‘Leading Individual’ in the 2023 Legal 500 UK guide. He is also listed in Chambers and Partners UK 2023 in the spotlight table for his work handling complex secondary transactions. Clients have said:
- "Bruno is an expert in our industry and we can always rely on him to advise us correctly taking into account the bigger picture."
- “He’s very well organized and is always on top of all the deals we’re working with his team on. I appreciate his client oriented approach and his team’s general availability to support us on multiple deals at the same time"
- "he is an outstanding partner, very experienced, very agile, creative and intelligent” and
- “is one of the best lawyers I have met”.
Chambers UK, Investment Funds: Private Equity: Secondaries, Spotlight Table 2021-2023
The Legal 500 United Kingdom: Investment Fund Formation & Management: Private Funds 2019-2023
The Legal 500 United Kingdom: Hedge Funds: Private Funds 2015-2017
The Legal 500 United States: Investment Fund Formation & Management: Private Equity Funds 2016
Bruno has served as deal adviser to global asset manager and secondary market leader, Ardian, since 2007. Bruno has advised Ardian in its role:
Bruno is leading an international multidisciplinary team of more than 20 lawyers who have closed approximately 200 transactions in the last couple of years. This includes: