David Sherman

Practice Areas

David Sherman is a partner in the Investment Funds Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he focuses his practice on advising sponsors regarding private equity fund matters, including forming, marketing and managing investment vehicles, launching new business lines, as well as operational, legal and regulatory issues at both the fund and sponsor level.

David represents a wide range of sponsors, including publicly traded global asset managers, prominent middle-market sponsors and first-time fund sponsors, across various investment strategies, including buyout, aviation/transportation, credit, special situations, real estate, senior equity and growth equity funds, with fund sizes ranging from $100 million to $10 billion. He also frequently represents sponsors on raising capital for targeted individual investments or subsets of investments, including forming co-investment vehicles, overage funds, annex funds, warehouse vehicles and continuation funds.

David also counsels sponsor clients on internal economic and governance arrangements, seed investments, spin-outs, conflict transactions and other corporate transactions involving private investment funds.

Some of David’s representative clients include, among others, Abry Partners, SK Capital Partners, The Carlyle Group, Carlyle Aviation Partners, 26North, Pretium, JP Morgan, Castlelake, Amulet Capital Partners, Garnett Station Partners, BBAM, SKY Leasing, FTAI Aviation and Butterfly Equity.