Proskauer

Warren Allan is a partner in the Private Funds Group and a member of the firm's Private Capital industry group.

Warren advises European sponsors on raising investment funds, and on a broad range of secondary transactions, including the purchase and sale of portfolios of fund interests and manager-led liquidity solutions. Warren also advises investors making direct and indirect co-investments.

Recent representative matters include advising:

Secondary purchases and sales of fund interests

• Access Capital Partners on a number of acquisitions and sales of fund interests
• Aberdeen Standard Investments on a number of acquisitions and sales of fund interests
• A family office on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests to five purchasers
• A French governmental institution on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests
• SwanCap Partners on the sale of a portfolio of fund interests

GP-led liquidity solutions

• Palamon Capital Partners on a tender offer to investors in two early vintage funds to a consortium of five buyer groups
• BlueGem Capital Partners on a GP-led asset-level liquidity offering, involving the transfer of remaining assets in a fund managed by BlueGem to a newly established continuation fund
• A European alternative asset manager on a GP-led liquidity offering to investors in five existing fund vehicles, with a primary staple

Fund Formation

• One Peak on the formation of its €443 million European growth equity fund, One Peak Growth II SCSp
• A UK fund manager on the formation of a £600 million mid-market private equity fund
• CGS Management on the formation of CGS IV, a CHF 240 million private equity fund
• VGC Partners on its first consumer and media technology growth capital fund

Co-investments

• An infrastructure co-investment fund on a number of direct and indirect infrastructure co-investments