Christopher Robinson

Practice Areas

Christopher C. Robinson is co-head of the Secondary Transactions and Liquidity Solutions practice and a partner in Proskauer's Private Funds Group. Named as a 2024 private equity MVP in Law360, and as a finalist for ‘Dealmaker of the Year’ by New York Law Journal, he primarily focuses his practice on representing buyers and sellers, as well as market intermediaries, in connection with complex secondary transactions, including traditional sales and purchases of fund interests, secondary direct transactions, captive fund spin-out arrangements, fund recapitalizations and restructurings and “stapled” secondary transactions.

In addition, he regularly represents sponsors of, and institutional investors in, private investment funds, including buyout, energy, credit, mezzanine, healthcare, real estate, venture capital, special situation and secondary funds, as well as separate and other managed accounts.

Christopher has significant experience with a diverse group of private investment firms and select representative sponsor clients include Acorn Growth Companies, Angeleno Group, Antares Capital, Aquarian Private Credit, Astara Capital Partners, Atlas Merchant Capital, Avego Healthcare Capital, Brightwood Capital Advisors, Carrick Capital Partners, Catalyst Investors, CleanArc Data Centers, Core Capital Partners, DFW Capital Partners, Factorial Funds, Greycroft Partners, Hark Capital, Havencrest Capital Management, Hudson Structured Capital Management, Inovia Capital, Kayne Anderson, Lateral Investment Management, LNC Partners, Melkonian Capital, MPE Partners, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), New Mountain Capital, Palladium Equity Partners, Reynolda Equity Partners, RLJ Equity Partners, Treville Capital Group, WestCap, Vesey Street Capital Partners and ZCG, among others.

In addition, Christopher represents some of the most active secondary investors in the market, and select representative “buy-side” clients include 50 South Capital, Apollo S3, Arena Investors, Ares/Landmark Partners, Arrowhead Management, Atalaya Capital, BentallGreenOak (BGO), Blackstone (Strategic Partners), Blue Owl Capital, BNY Advisors, Churchill Asset Management, Commonfund Capital, CPP Investments (CPPIB), Cross Ocean Partners, CVC Secondary Partners, Dawson Partners, FlowStone Partners, GCM Grosvenor, Hollyport Capital, Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), J.P. Morgan, Leonard Green Partners, Lexington Partners, New Vintage Partners, Neuberger Berman, Northleaf Capital Partners, Pacific General, Painswick Capital Management, Pantheon, Partners Group, Portfolio Advisors, Quilvest Capital Partners, RCP Advisors, Regents of The University of California, StepStone, and W Capital, among others.