Christian Vareika

A member of the firm’s alternative asset opportunities practice, Christian routinely represents some of the world’s largest institutional investors, including sovereign investors, pension funds, secondary buyers, and other large investors, as they deploy capital. He regularly advises clients in connection with a range of transactions around the world and across asset classes, including continuation vehicle transactions, secondary purchases and sales, and other structured liquidity transactions, co-investments, direct investments, and joint ventures.

Clients have told Chambers that Christian “leads us through difficult transactions and always conveys complex issues in a clear and concise manner,” “knows how to manage very complex transactions,” and “is an up-and-coming superstar in the space.”

As part of Ropes & Gray’s secondary buyer practice, which represents 10 of the top 15 secondary buyers globally, Christian has advised lead investors—including co-leads and lead investor syndicates—in some of the largest and most complex continuation vehicle transactions in the market in recent years. In 2024, the Ropes & Gray team closed more than 600 secondaries transactions worth over $275 billion.

Christian also maintains an active pro bono practice, including representing an asylum seeker and his family and case screening review for the Innocence Project.

During law school, Christian served as an executive articles editor of the Boston College Law Review and as a Judiciary Fellow with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime & Terrorism in Washington, D.C. Prior to law school, Christian held a number of positions in the Office of the Governor of Rhode Island, his home state, including Chief Speechwriter, Deputy Communications Director, and Special Assistant to the Governor. He also served as campaign coordinator for a successful gubernatorial campaign.