About
Matthew Griffin is a partner in the Funds and Investment Management practice of the London office. He has more than two decades of funds and investment management experience, advising a range of clients on the formation of, and investment in, private funds across illiquid and liquid asset classes and across geographies.
He also advises on co-investments (including co-underwritten transactions), secondaries, carried interest arrangements and other complex fund related matters, including fund restructurings, continuation funds and liquidity events.
Matthew has advised institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds on billions of dollars in primary and secondary fund commitments, advised on the formation of funds from mid-sized venture capital through to multi-billion dollar buyout funds, and advised on some of more complex and innovative structured secondary transactions in Europe.
Experience
- Advising a number of sovereign wealth funds on billions of dollars of co-investment, primary and secondary fund transactions, with particular experience in co-underwritten transactions, platform arrangements, strategic and complex investment arrangements and single investor fund vehicles
- Leadenhall Capital Partners on the formation of a number of its closed-end and open-end insurance linked securities funds
- Genesis Capital on the formation of its most recent four flagship private equity funds
- Hambro Perks (now Salica Investments) on the formation of a number of venture capital, insurance and specialist funds, including one of the first funds in the Abu Dhabi Global Market
- HarbourVest, AlpInvest, Deutsche Bank Asset Management, Adveq and many other institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds on multiple fund-related secondary transactions, continuation funds, fund restructurings and GP removal processes
