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Peter Naismith

Peter Naismith

USA 2026

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Ranked in 2 practice areas

About

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Practice Areas

Peter advises hedge funds, private equity funds, hybrid funds, and investment advisers in connection with their structuring, formation, and ongoing operational needs, as well as on certain regulatory and compliance matters. Also represents several institutional and high-net-worth investors. Head of Investor Representation.

Peter represents a wide variety of institutional and entrepreneurial fund sponsors and asset managers in connection with their structuring, formation, and ongoing operational needs, and certain regulatory and compliance matters. In addition, he represents institutional and high-net-worth investors in connection with commingled fund, “fund of one,” rated note feeder, managed account, and seed investments. He also has extensive experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, including a range of complex, high-value public and private transactions across a number of industry sectors.

Before joining the firm, Peter served as in-house counsel at a privately held investment firm, where he focused on fund formation, hedge fund, and private equity fund seeding and family office matters. His broad experience also includes roles with other law firms based in New York, London, and Adelaide, Australia.

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Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Investment Funds: Investor Representation - USA - Nationwide

Band 3
Band 3

Individual Editorial

Peter Naismith of McDermott Will & Schulte is adept at advising fund sponsors and institutional investors across a broad range of fund work.

Hedge Funds - USA - Nationwide

Band 5
Band 5

Individual Editorial

Peter Naismith has a strong practice advising institutional and entrepreneurial fund sponsors across hedge fund formations and structurings.

Strengths

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  • Peter has a broad, sophisticated practice across all traditional asset classes and strategies, and is well positioned to handle any kind of LP-side fund investment.

    Investment Funds: Investor RepresentationChambers Guide to the USA
  • Peter has a great depth of knowledge and understands the situations we are in and how to work through them.

    Hedge FundsChambers Guide to the USA

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