Biography
Andrew Chizzik is a partner in Weil’s Private Funds practice and is based in New York. He has extensive experience representing U.S. and non-U.S. private investment fund sponsors in structuring and negotiating the terms of domestic and offshore private investment funds. In addition, he has represented private investment fund sponsors and their personnel in connection with various employment and separation agreements as well as in connection with economic sharing arrangements among such persons. Mr. Chizzik also represents certain prominent limited partners in connection with their investments in private equity funds, real estate funds and venture capital funds, as well as buyers and sellers of secondary interests in private equity funds. He also advises fund sponsors generally with respect to the Federal securities laws, including the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
Mr. Chizzik’s representative clients include Apollo Global Management, Brookfield Asset Management, Cresta Energy, Genstar Capital, PSP and WL Ross & Co.
Mr. Chizzik is recognized as a “Leading Lawyer” for Private Equity Funds by Legal 500 US where he is described as “an excellent technician” and as a “Rising Star” for Investment Funds in the U.S. by IFLR1000. In 2015, Mr. Chizzik was named to private funds management’s “30 Under 40” list, a survey of “the next generation of legal eagles in the private funds industry.”
Mr. Chizzik received his J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law and his B.S. from Cornell University.