Profile
Sheldon Hunt Laing has more than a decade of experience advising private fund sponsors on the formation, operation, and compliance of private investment vehicles. Sheldon focuses his practice on buyout, growth equity, and late-stage venture fundraises for established and emerging sponsors. Sheldon’s clients have included publicly listed multi-strategy global sponsors, established middle-market and lower middle-market sponsors and first-time fund managers. He has wide-ranging experience raising U.S. and non-U.S. blind pool commingled funds, single asset co-investment vehicles and other SPVs, SMAs and continuation funds. He regularly counsels clients on upper-tier structuring (including carry plans), complex LP transfers, establishing new private fund product lines, asset management M&A, fund governance and investor relations considerations, regulatory compliance matters and the fund-related aspects of asset acquisitions, restructurings and divestments and fund-related borrowing.
Concentrations
- Commingled fundraises, co-investments and single-asset SPVs, continuation funds and GP-led secondaries
- New fund product launches
- Carry plans and other upper-tier arrangements
Áreas de Atuação
Experiência
- Represented leading transatlantic middle-market sponsor in connection with the formation of a $1 billion single asset continuation fund.°
- Represented U.S.-based middle-market sponsor in connection with the formation of its inaugural AI-focused turnaround buyout fund.°
- Represented U.S.-based middle-market sponsor in connection with the formation of its inaugural small-cap buyout fund.°
- Represented leading U.S.-based listed sponsor in connection with the formation of the fifth health care venture fund.°
- Represented U.S.-based middle-marked sponsor in connection with fund-related aspects of a $1.1 billion take-private transaction, including formation of co-investment vehicle and alternative investment vehicles.°
- Represented U.S.-based middle-market sponsor in connection with the formation of its ~$3 billion U.S.-focused consumer products and services buyout fund.°
- Represented U.S.-based middle-market sponsor in connection with a $500 million cross-fund sale including the formation of a related single-asset co-investment fund.°
- Represented U.S.-based middle-market sponsor in connection with a $250 million cross-fund sale.°
- Represented leading U.S.-based listed sponsor in connection with the fund-related aspects of its $450 million acquisition of $10 billion AUM credit-focused fund management business.°
- Represented leading U.S.-based listed sponsor in connection with the fund-related aspects of its acquisition of $1 billion AUM health care venture fund management business.°
- Represented middle-market U.S.-based private equity sponsor in connection with the formation of its $1 billion third vintage U.S.-focused food industry buyout fund and multiple single-asset co-investment vehicles to invest alongside the fund.°
- Represented leading U.S.-based sponsor in connection with the formation of its ~$1 billion fifth US-focused late-stage venture fund.°
- Represented leading U.S.-based sponsor in connection with the formation of its €1 billion third vintage European-focused growth equity fund.°
- Represented U.S.-based middle-market sponsor in connection with the formation of its $2 billion seventh vintage U.S.-focused consumer products and services buyout fund.°
- Represented U.S.-based middle-market sponsor in connection with the formation of its ~$1.7 billion fifth vintage U.S.-focused government services and related industries buyout fund.°
- Represented leading U.S.-based sponsor in connection with the formation of its ~$5 billion US-focused flagship buyout fund.°
- Represented leading U.S.-based sponsor in connection with the formation of its ~$1 billion third vintage direct-lending credit fund.°
- Represented middle-market U.S.-based private equity sponsor in connection with multiple co-investment transactions ($170 million to $320 million in co-investor commitments).°
- Represented middle-market U.S.-based private equity sponsor in connection with a ~$250 million co-investment fund formation.°
- Represented U.S.-based middle-market private equity sponsor in connection with a ~$300 million special opportunities credit fund.°
- Represented leading U.S.-based private equity sponsor in connection with the formation of its ~$7.5 billion eleventh vintage flagship real estate fund.°
- Represented leading U.S.-based sponsor in connection with the formation of its €700 million second vintage European-focused growth equity fund.°
- Represented leading private equity fund-of-funds sponsor in connection with multiple secondary purchases of private equity fund portfolios.°
- Represented leading investment bank in connection with the formation of several feeder access funds to invest in separate underlying private equity and hedge funds.°
- Represented leading international investment bank in connection with the disposal of its private equity fund interests.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Laing prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Reconhecimento & Liderança
- Member, New York State Bar Association, 2012-Present
Credenciais
- LL.B., cum laude, University of Cape Town
- B.Soc.Sc., Social Anthropology & Law, University of Cape Town
- New York
- Afrikaans
- Inglês