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Private Equity: Fund Formation

USA - Nationwide

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Provided by Chris P Kallos

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Chris Kallos is internationally recognized as a leading private equity attorney, with more than 30 years of experience and a specialty in private equity firm management and fund formation.

As a leader of Kirkland’s Investment Funds Group, Chris has been instrumental in developing Kirkland’s industry-leading global practice over the last 30+ years. In addition, he regularly oversees M&A, financing, restructuring, litigation, securities, intellectual property, tax and estate planning matters for a wide-range of public and private clients.

Chris leads fund matters for large and middle-market buyout, growth equity, debt, secondary, venture, technology, real estate and other funds. These matters range from fund formations to team spin-outs, fund restructurings, SPAC sponsorships, minority stake investments in fund management companies, succession planning, key person events, conflicts resolution, co-investments, secondary transactions and internal manager operations.

Representative clients include leading national and international private equity sponsors, such as AEA Investors, Arsenal Capital, Comvest Partners, Equity Group Investments, Equity International, Graham Partners, Hammond, Kennedy, Whitney & Co., HCI Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, Sorenson Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Versa Capital Partners, Vestar Capital Partners, and Corner Ventures, in addition to select limited partners, family offices and public companies.

Outside of his client work, Chris lectures as an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, where he also works with the school’s Private Equity Institute, and he serves on the Advisory Board for the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Chris is regularly sought out as a speaker and panel moderator in the U.S. and internationally on private equity topics.

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Private Equity: Fund Formation - USA - Nationwide

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Chris Kallos handles the establishment of significant buyout and venture capital funds.

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