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”.

The 2020 edition of Chambers Global Guide noted Damian “has garnered a reputation in the closed-end funds space” and recognized him as an “Up and Coming” lawyer for investment funds. Additionally, he is recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” by IFLR1000 2019–2021.

Fund Formation

  • Azalea Asset Management — Fund of Funds ($650M)
  • SSG Capital Partners — Special Situations Fund ($2.7B)
  • Pamfleet — Value-Add Fund ($450M)
  • SC Capital Partners — Opportunity Fund
  • LOGOS Properties — Industrials Platform ($800M)
  • Macquarie Capital — Multi-Family Platform
  • TPG — Early-Stage Platform ($300M)
  • OCP Asia — Direct Lending Fund ($500M)
  • Gaw Capital Partners — Value-Add Fund ($400M)
  • Crescent Point Group — Deep Value Fund
  • SSG Capital Partners — Secured Lending Fund ($800M)
  • SSG Capital Partners — Special Situations Fund ($1.7B)

Liquidity Solutions

  • Kinzon Capital — Renminbi-to-Dollar Fund Recapitalization ($100M)
  • Legend Capital — Fund Recapitalization ($200M)
  • HarbourVest Partners — Team Spin-Out ($180M)
  • TPG — Stapled Secondary Offering ($1B)
  • MegaDelta Captial Advisors — Team Spin-Out
  • HarbourVest Partners — Team Spin-Out (A$500M)
  • Warburg Pincus — Strip Sale ($1.5B)
  • Madison Indian Capital — Direct Portfolio ($180M)
  • HarbourVest Partners — Team Spin-Out (A$675M)
  • HarbourVest Partners — Team Spin-Out ($100M)
  • Azalea Asset Management — Multiple LP Portfolios ($5.5B)
  • Partners Group — Multiple LP Portfolios ($500M)
  • 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.

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