Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

Sidley advises clients on the structuring, organization and offering of private equity and venture capital funds, and fund of funds transactions, including traditional leveraged buyout and start-up funds, as well as funds structured around specific investment products such as real estate and energy companies.

We provide a full range of legal services to our private equity and venture capital fund clients, including advice on regulatory matters, choice of jurisdictions, choice of entity forms, business term alternatives, marketing arrangements and tax and ERISA matters.

Together with the firm's corporate group, we represent our private equity and venture capital fund clients in connection with the structuring and documentation of their investments in portfolio companies.

We also provide advice on complex tax, intellectual property, litigation, corporate, financing, bankruptcy and environmental matters relating to these transactions.

• U.S. Congress Enacts JOBS Act, Increasing 499 Investor Limit for Private Funds to 1,999 and Eliminating Prohibition Against General Solicitation in Connection with Certain Private Offerings
  March 28, 2012
• Recent IRS Guidance on Electronic K-1s
  March 20, 2012

• Sign up for Sidley Updates
  

• 61 Sidley Lawyers Recognized in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business for 2010
  March 18, 2010

• Top Ten Trends for Latin Investment Funds
  May 2011
• The Administration’s Financial Regulatory Reform Proposals
  September 2009