Damian Jacobs

Partner Investment Funds
Kirkland & Ellis

Hong Kong +852 3761 3563

Damian Jacobs

Overview

Damian’s practice focuses on forming and structuring private investment funds and their management companies across asset classes including private equity, private debt and private real estate funds. He has represented international, regional and local fund sponsors, including newly-formed sponsors, in connection with platform formations, joint ventures, club structures and other significant transactions.

Damian also advises sponsors in connection with GP and LP-led secondaries and liquidity solutions transactions including LP portfolio sales, stapled secondary offerings, strip sales, fund recapitalizations and restructurings, captive team spin-outs and synthetic secondaries. Damian was recognized by Private Equity International in their list of “Young Guns of Secondaries: Class of 2016”.

Chambers Global noted Damian “has garnered a reputation in the closed-end funds space” and is "easy to deal with both on your and the other side". Additionally, he is recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” by IFLR1000 2019–2022.

Fund Formation

  • Ares SSG – Special Situations Funds IV and V and Secured Lending Funds II and III ($6.8B)
  • Azalea Asset Management – Fund of Funds I ($650M)
  • Crescent Point Group – Deep Value Funds I and II
  • ESR – Japan Single Asset Funds ($1.2B)
  • Gaw Capital Partners – US Value-Add Fund IV ($400M)
  • GLP – China Development Fund III ($1B+)
  • LOGOS Properties – Industrials Platform ($800M)
  • Macquarie Capital – Multi-Family Platform
  • NewQuest Capital Partners – Secondaries Fund IV ($1B)
  • OCP Asia – Direct Lending Funds II through IV ($1.3B)
  • Pamfleet (Schroders) – Value-Add Fund III ($450M)
  • SC Capital Partners – Opportunity Fund
  • TPG – Early-Stage Platform ($300M)
  • TR Capital – Secondaries Fund IV ($350M)

Liquidity Solutions

Sell-Side

  • Harvest Group – Renminbi-to-Dollar Fund Recapitalization ($100M)
  • Hosen Capital – Single-Asset Continuation Fund ($280M) 
  • Kinzon Capital – Renminbi-to-Dollar Fund Recapitalization ($100M)
  • Legend Capital – Fund Recapitalization ($200M)
  • MegaDelta Capital Advisors – Team Spin-Out
  • Olympus Capital Asia – Fund Recapitalization ($450M)
  • TPG – Stapled Secondary Offering ($1B)
  • Vertex Ventures – Fund Recapitalization ($500M)
  • Warburg Pincus – Strip Sale ($1.5B)

Buy-Side

  • Azalea Asset Management – Multiple LP Portfolios ($5.5B)
  • HarbourVest Partners – Multiple Structured Transactions and LP Portfolios ($1.8B)
  • Madison Indian Capital – Multiple Structured Transactions ($300M)
  • NewQuest Capital Partners – Multiple Structured Transactions ($180M)
  • Partners Group – Multiple Structured Transactions and LP Portfolios ($1B)
  • Asian Family Office – LP Portfolio ($100M)
  • Asian Sovereign – LP Portfolio ($200M)
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
  • Singapore (2010–2012)
  • London (2008–2010)
Allens Arthur Robinson, Melbourne (2005–2008)

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Thought Leadership

Seminars

Speaker, Secondary Deals: Getting into the Detail, Kirkland & Ellis Liquidity Solutions Academy, New York City, New York, November 6, 2019.

Recognition

“Leading Lawyer”, Investment Funds: Private Equity (International Firms) – China, Chambers Asia-Pacific (2022) 

“Up and Coming”, Investment Funds: Private Equity (International Firms) – China, Chambers Asia-Pacific (2020–2021)

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2014, Admitted to Practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales
  • 2012, Hong Kong, Solicitor
  • 2006, Victoria, Australia (non-practicing)

Education

  • University of TasmaniaJ.D.with Honors2004
  • University of TasmaniaB.A.; LL.B.with Honors2004