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Stephen Culhane

Stephen Culhane
Office:
Linklaters LLP
1345 Avenue of the Americas
City:
New York
State:
New York
Country:
USA
Tel:
+1 212 903 9300
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+1 212 903 9100

Biography: Private funds

Stephen Culhane focuses primarily on representing sponsors of private equity funds, real estate funds, special situation and distressed investment funds, hedge funds and funds of funds with respect to the structuring, formation and operation of such fund products. He also advises select institutional clients with respect to their investments in private funds and has extensive experience negotiating complex secondary transactions involving portfolios of fund and/or direct investments.

Stephen is regularly cited as a leader in the private funds industry; commendations include Chambers USA; Legal 500; The Expert Guide to the World's Leading Private Equity Lawyers; The Expert Guide to the World's Leading Investment Management Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America.

Before joining Linklaters in 2006, Stephen led the New York private funds and asset management practice at King & Spalding. Prior to that, he spent seven years in the Goldman Sachs & Co legal department where he served as the legal director to the firm's private equity group, one of the world's largest private equity fund of funds complexes, and as the senior attorney covering GSAM's direct hedge funds and institutional separate accounts. Stephen has specialised in private investment funds since the early 1990s and is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of NY private funds committee; the ABA committee on private equity and venture capital; and the private funds sub-committee of the IBA. Stephen graduated cum laude from Princeton, received an M Phil in Politics from Oxford, and his JD from New York University.

This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Private funds Lawyers which can be purchased from our Bookstore.

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