Greg Durst is the senior director of global fund partnerships in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP.
Greg has extensive experience and deep ties to the investor community, and is working to streamline the interaction between LPs and GPs, helping clients achieve shorter negotiations, faster closings and a stronger sense of partnership between capital providers and investment managers. Based in London with an international remit, Greg also focuses on deepening the relationships between Kirkland and its existing and potential clients. He has three decades of professional services leadership experience in asset management, strategy consulting, banking and operations.
Most recently, Greg was the senior managing director for global growth at the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), the global trade body for allocators committing capital to private markets. He represented ILPA and its 600+ members in many industry conversations and engagements, serving as a senior contributor in retail capital in private markets, private credit, NAV facilities and continuation funds.
As part of his role, he led the development and launch of the association’s first formal engagement mechanism with the GP community on both the strategic and tactical issues facing the industry. In addition, Greg was the co-host of the association’s annual LP/GP roundtables in New York and London, bringing together senior leaders and founders from GPs, CIO’s and heads of private equity from the LPs. While at ILPA, he led many of the association’s growth efforts with general partners, the legal community and other service providers, including leading ILPA’s events business. Prior to joining Kirkland, he led the opening of ILPA’s European office in London, ILPA’s first non-North American office.
As a corporate development professional, Greg was ILPA’s point person for more than 200 GPs and nearly 100 emerging managers. These conversations covered fund structures, administration, technology, legal, compliance and reporting, and capital raising strategies.
In addition to his work on behalf of the private equity industry, he has led investor relations efforts at two private fund managers, been a strategy consultant with Bain & Company in their private equity practice and a banker for sponsors at The Chase Manhattan Bank and Paribas Capital Markets.
Representative Institutional LP Relationships
- Global-scale sovereign wealth funds, including Temasek, QIA and Alaska Permanent Fund
- Major public and private pension plans in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific, including Ontario Teachers, CPPIB, CalSTERS, Aware Super and USS
- Leading insurers and fund-of-funds in North America, Europe and Asia, including Allianz, Allstate, Adams Street and Hamilton Lane
- Endowments, foundations and family offices, including Irvine Trust, Robert Wood Johnson and Freemont Capital
Representative GP Relationships
- Global multi-strategy managers, including Ares, Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR and TPG
- Large global and pan-regional players, including Advent, CD&R, EQT and Vista
- Middle market leaders, including Berkshire Partners, Cerberus and L Catterton
- Recent new entrants, including Arctos, BGH and WestCap
