Kirkland & Ellis has appointed Nicole Runyan, William Tuttle, Brad Green, Erin Lett, David Marcinkus and Lisa Goldstein as partners in the firm’s Investment Funds Group.
The team focuses on advising registered funds and business development companies (BDCs) — as well as their investment advisers and independent board members — and investment banks, with a particular emphasis on products designed for high net worth and retail investors.
Runyan advises on the creation, registration and operation of registered products designed for retail as well as institutional investors. In addition to advising on more traditional open-end and closed-end fund matters, she regularly counsels clients on the formation and offering of alternative investment products — such as BDCs, funds of funds, and interval and tender offer funds — offering access to a variety of asset classes, including private credit and private equity.
Tuttle advises BDCs, closed-end funds, investment advisers and investment banks on a wide range of public and private capital markets transactions and other corporate matters. He regularly counsels on the establishment and ongoing operation of public, private and continuously offered BDCs, consolidation transactions in the BDC industry and the formation and structuring of asset managers.
Green counsels clients in connection with structuring, registering and operating publicly offered and privately placed investment vehicles that provide access to retail and high net worth asset management platforms. His practice focuses on the representation of registered closed-end funds — notably, alternative products, such as private equity, private credit and hedge funds, and funds that directly employ hedge fund strategies — as well as traditional, exchange-listed funds.
Lett advises issuers and underwriters on public and private capital markets transactions, with a particular focus on BDCs, closed-end funds and registered investment advisers. She also counsels BDCs and asset managers on a wide range of corporate matters, ranging from formation and structuring to corporate governance and compliance with SEC filing obligations.
Marcinkus advises BDCs and other types of closed-end funds, as well as their sponsors, on a wide range of regulatory and compliance issues with particular experience in co-investment and affiliated transaction matters.
Goldstein advises on a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters involving registered open-end and closed-end investment companies and their investment advisers, including with respect to alternative capital funds.
