Biography: Private funds

Jonathan McCullough is a founding partner of McCullough O'Connor Irwin LLP, a corporate and securities law firm based in Vancouver with a substantial Canadian private equity practice. The firm's clients include institutional investors, fund sponsors, investment dealers, mutual and hedge fund managers, public and private corporations from a variety of industries, venture capital firms and merchant banks.

Mr McCullough has extensive experience in private equity fund formation, acting on behalf of both fund sponsors and institutional investors in organising domestic and international private equity funds to invest in buyouts, mezzanine, venture capital, merchant banking, timber and infrastructure assets. He is familiar with all aspects of structuring, negotiating and completing such investments and with standards and market terms for investment policies, fees, returns and governance in this emerging asset class. Additionally, he has significant experience in assisting such funds and other investors with direct transactions, including investments, acquisitions, recapitalisations and exits.

He has spoken at numerous legal education conferences, has published articles on corporate law issues and has participated on an advisory committee to a Canadian stock exchange. He has been recognised by his peers as a leading practitioner in the private equity or private funds law practice categories in surveys conducted by the following publications: International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, IFLR's Guide to the World's Leading Private Equity Lawyers, Practical Law Corporation's Cross-Border Private Equity Handbook, The Best Lawyers in Canada and Lexpert Magazine.