Omar Hemady

Omar advises private fund sponsors, investment managers, and investment advisers on fund formation and sponsor-side transactions, drawing on deep in-house and private-practice experience in the private funds and private credit space. He focuses on the formation and structuring of a wide range of investment vehicles, including private equity, private credit, hedge, venture, real estate, and permanent-capital vehicles, as well as fund-of-funds and customized fund structures.

Experience

Representative matters

Represented multiple private credit fund managers in connection with the formation and launch of both closed end direct lending funds, co-investment vehicles, and evergreen private credit fund structures for US and non-US investors (namely, levered-blocker feeder, rated feeders and "season and sell" structures).

Represented numerous venture capital firms in connection with the recent successful launch of early and growth-stage funds ranging from $100 million to $3 billion focused on fintech, life sciences and biotechnology sectors.

Represented a private equity investment adviser as transactional counsel on its sale of a 20% interest in the firm to certain strategic investors.

Represented a private credit investment adviser as sponsor-side counsel on its sale of a minority interest to a global investment management firm.

Represented institutional and private fund managers, including long-only, fixed income, long-short equity, quantitative, emerging/frontier markets, credit/distressed credit, venture capital, growth equity and fund-of-funds in the launch of open-end, closed-end, and hybrid style funds with raises ranging from $150 million to $2 billion and representing such managers with respect to ongoing regulatory and compliance matters.

Represented registered investment advisers in connection with recent successful launches of a number of infrastructure funds focused on the food, water, waste and (both traditional and renewable) energy sectors, as well as the industrial and transportation sectors.

Represented a hedge fund manager as sponsor-side counsel on a sale of a minority interest in the firm to an investor group led by Leucadia Asset Management that involved a buyout of a minority interest held by another GP stakes investor.

Represented a credit-oriented hedge fund manager in connection with the structuring and eventual restructuring relating to its funds and management entities.

Represented a quantitative hedge fund in connection with significant seed capital transaction from family office and launch of fund structure.

Represented a U.S.-registered investment adviser on the formation and operation of trade finance funds.

Represented U.S.-based real estate investment advisers in a capital raise for many real estate focused funds, including multi-family residential real estate focused funds, commercial real estate projects and 1031 exchange focused funds ranging from $100 million to over $1 billion, and a dedicated high-net worth feeder fund organized to invest primarily in data center developments in the Eastern United States.