Shukie Grossman is a Co-Head of Weil’s US Private Funds Group. He has extensive experience representing US and non-US private investment fund sponsors in structuring and negotiating the terms of domestic and offshore private investment funds. He has also negotiated numerous employment agreements on behalf of, and economic sharing arrangements among, private investment fund sponsors and merchant banking executives, as well as the terms of a number of joint ventures between private investment fund sponsors and strategic investors. In addition, Mr. Grossman represents institutional investors in investing in prominent private investment funds, as well as buyers and sellers of secondary interests in such funds. He also advises asset managers generally with respect to the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Mr. Grossman’s representative clients include AXA Private Equity, Brookfield Asset Management, Capital Z, Century Park Capital Partners, Credit Suisse Asset Management, Falconhead Capital Partners, LAMCO, Macquarie Bank Limited, and York Capital Management.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Grossman spent several years in the Division of Investment Management of the US Securities and Exchange Commission and in private practice with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Mr. Grossman is a member of the Private Investment Fund Forum and is consistently recognized by Chambers USA, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 and IFLR 1000. He was also included in The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers 2013. Mr. Grossman is a member of the adjunct faculty at Columbia Law School where he teaches a course on private investment funds.