Private Equity Funds: Business Structure and Operations

James Schell is a partner in Mayer Brown's New York office and a member of the Corporate & Securities practice. James has more than 25 years of experience in forming private equity and other pooled investment funds and in representing clients who wish to organize or invest or participate in private companies that sponsor and manage private equity and hedge funds. His work in this area encompasses established private equity and hedge fund firms that need to be restructured to address succession, governance or ownership issues, as well as new investment management firms being established by individuals, family offices or traditional financial institutions. 

Kristine M. Koren is a partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of the Corporate & Securities practice. Kristine represents sponsor and investor clients in the formation and capitalization of a diverse range of United States and offshore private investment funds and asset managers, including related financing, co-investment, acquisition and exit transactions. Her clients include private funds, financial services firms, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, high net worth individuals and other asset managers.

Kristine currently serves as co-chair of the NY State Bar’s private funds group.

Pamela Lawrence Endreny is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She regularly advises clients on a broad range of U.S. and international tax matters, including public and private M&A, spin-offs, joint ventures, restructurings, financings and capital markets transactions, as well as on all types of matters involving asset managers and private equity funds. She is also experienced in obtaining private letter rulings from the IRS on spin-offs and other corporate transactions and in assisting in audits and tax controversies.

Endreny currently serves as chair of the Financial Transactions & Products Committee of the ABA Tax Section and as Co-Chair, Investment Funds of the Tax Section Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association.  She frequently writes and speaks on emerging tax topics.