John Caccia

John Caccia represents a range of sponsor and investor clients in the formation, negotiation and capitalization of private investment vehicles, including private equity funds, private credit funds, hedge funds, hybrid funds and managed accounts. He regularly represents new manager teams and new fund sponsors in the establishment of cross-border and other investment management platforms and advises on a range of portfolio investments across the debt and equity markets. He also advises on GP-led and other fund restructurings, including in connection with asset recapitalization or dispositions, as well as on compliance matters, financings, joint ventures, and other significant strategic initiatives.

Mr. Caccia repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He also is recognized as a leading practitioner by The Best Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 U.S. and The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers. Mr. Caccia recently has been profiled in Lawdragon Magazine, and he regularly speaks on the subject of private funds in the capital markets, including at Fordham University, New York University, Bocconi University in Milan, The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford.

Mr. Caccia has represented sponsors and investors in a wide range of transactions reflecting particular opportunities generated by shifts in the global private funds and capital markets landscape. Such transactions include the formation of a $4.6 billion hybrid fund offering investors exposure to a broad range of assets with one class for investors seeking private equity-like economics and terms and a second class having terms representative of a hedge fund-like investment, and the formation of a $1.3 billion secondary private equity fund of funds. Mr. Caccia also has represented the sponsors of a leading boutique investment banking business organized to include a platform for private equity and hedge fund sponsorship, and prominent sovereign wealth entities in the deployment of approximately $3 billion in hedge funds and private equity funds.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Mr. Justice Charles Gonthier, Supreme Court of Canada (1992)

Dalhousie University

LL.B.

1992

University of Oxford

B.C.L.

1991

Oxford University Jurisprudence

B.A.

1990

University of Toronto

B.A. (Honors with High Distinction)

1988