Sean is a partner in Kirkland’s Investment Funds Practice Group. He advises investment managers and sponsors across the full life cycle of their businesses, with a focus on private fund formation, secondaries and liquidity solutions, and other fund- and sponsor-level matters. Sean works with managers across the spectrum of size and maturity, from emerging managers to well-established multistrategy firms, bringing a practical, market-informed perspective to complex mandates.
Sean counsels sponsors on the formation and structuring of private funds across buyout, credit, special situations, secondaries-focused funds and funds of funds. His experience includes hybrid and evergreen structures, funds of one, separate accounts, co-investments, rated note offerings and collateralized fund obligation structures.
Sean has more than 25 years of experience advising on the full spectrum of secondaries and other liquidity transactions, including GP-led transactions, preferred equity investments, NAV-based financings, structured and synthetic transactions, tender offers, leveraged secondaries and fund liquidations. He regularly advises on the structuring and execution of complex single-asset, multi-asset and credit portfolio GP-led and continuation fund transactions, as well as fund recapitalizations and restructurings.
Beyond fund formation and liquidity transactions, Sean advises sponsors on firm ownership and operations, succession planning and incentive arrangements. He also advises on strategic transactions involving alternative asset managers, including seed capital arrangements, minority and strategic investments, structured capital transactions, investment team spin-outs, joint ventures and asset management mergers and acquisitions.
