Sidley announced that Ed Gander has joined Sidley’s Investment Funds practice group in London. He joins Sidley from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where Gander was head of their London Private Funds group and co-head of their Global Private Funds group. Gander will become head of Sidley’s London Private Funds group, and will be joined in the coming weeks by Stephen Fox and Peter Boulle, also partners in the Private Funds group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
Gander is a well-known international private funds leader with over 25 years of fundraising experience. His broad cross-border practice focuses on advising a wide range of leading private equity fund sponsors on structuring and operating complex global funds. Gander has a proven track record of serving global fund managers across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and secondary funds.
When Fox and Boulle join, they will become part of a six-partner cross-practice London-based funds team. The team includes Oren Gertner, Blake Fillion, and EU/UK financial services and regulatory funds head Leonard Ng with a versatile practice across a wide range of asset classes, such as advising on the structuring, marketing, and negotiation of funds as well as the commercial and EU/UK regulatory issues arising from the ongoing day-to-day operation of such funds.
Sidley made several significant additions in London over the last year, with a group of eight Leveraged Finance partners led by Jay Sadanandan and Sam Hamilton, such as Capital Markets partners Scott Colwell and Patrick Kwak, and Global Finance partners Fergus O’Domhnaill, Joe Kimberling, Ben Wright, and Tania Bedi. And they were recently joined by Global Capital Markets partner David Stewart. And the office also added partners Ben Thompson (Infrastructure Finance) and Clive Gringras (AI and Tech).
Plus, Sidley also made significant additions to its funds practice in the U.S. over the past year, with Shane Goudey, leading the firm’s Venture Capital fund formation practice from Palo Alto, and Mathew Eapen in Boston, focusing on private investment funds, particularly venture capital, growth equity, and technology- and healthcare-focused funds.
Sidley has a global practice in structuring and advising asset management businesses. The Investment Funds practice group serves virtually every type of investment fund and asset manager, as well as many other market participants. And the group has about 130 corporate, securities, and derivatives lawyers dedicated to investment funds, investment management, and derivatives work worldwide, and works closely with our sophisticated tax, benefits, regulatory, enforcement, and other related practices.
KEY QUOTES:
“I am excited to welcome market-leader Ed Gander to the firm as we continue to build out our elite Private Funds team in our London office, taking our premier platform for our private clients to a new scale; the experience and deep sector knowledge of the team are highly synergetic with our recent arrivals as we look to unlock new opportunities for our clients and prospective clients to build their business. Our firm works with more than 200 of the leading global sponsors and by adding Ed, Steve, and Peter, we are continuing our transformational growth in London to service our clients legal needs.”
Tom Thesing, managing partner of Sidley’s London office and a member of the Management and Executive Committees
“Ed, Steve, and Peter have built an exceptional private funds practice and have strong relationships with leading sponsors who will benefit from onboarding onto our market-leading cross-border platform. Adding this team underlines our commitment to growing our Investment Funds practice with elite talent.”
Liz Fries, global leader of the firm’s Investment Funds practice, a member of Sidley’s Executive Committee, and managing partner of the Boston office
