Adam Deutsch is a member of the Private Equity Finance Practice and Israel Practice, and is based in the Tel Aviv and New York offices of Latham & Watkins. He primarily represents borrowers in secured lending transactions, with special expertise in Fund Finance.

Adam’s practice is focused on tailoring bespoke financing solutions for investment funds with complex structures across a variety of asset classes, including private equity, real estate, credit and infrastructure. He regularly advises sponsors and their portfolio companies through a wide array of financings, including:

  • Subscription lines of credit (also referred to as “capital call facilities”) secured by uncalled capital commitments and related rights, which provide borrowing capacity for investment funds, as well as their parallel funds, alternative investment vehicles, special purpose vehicles and portfolio companies
  • NAV-based facilities and hybrid variations
  • General partner financings and management lines provided to general partners and investment advisors for working capital purposes
  • Co-investment loan programs made available to employees, partners and other investment professionals and secured by their fund interests
  • Unsecured demand lines
  • Fund guarantees of portfolio level investments

Private Equity Finance

Adam’s recent experience includes advising the following clients on a range of complex financings:

  • The Carlyle Group
  • Apollo Global Management
  • The Jordan Company
  • I Squared Capital Advisors
  • Onex Corporation
  • Energy Capital Partners
  • Searchlight Capital Partners
  • Blackstone*
  • KKR*
  • a16z
  • Khosla Ventures
  • Fraser McCombs Ventures
  • Inverness Graham Investments
  • Graham Partners
  • Meadow Capital Partners 
  • Constitution Capital Partners
  • Corinthian Capital Group
  • Great Hill Partners
  • DigitalBridge Group
  • Morning Calm Management
  • Tallvine Partners
  • ERA Partners

Israel Practice

Adam’s recent experience includes advising the following clients on a range of M&A and Capital Markets matters:

  • Enlight Renewable Energy on its US$252 million US IPO on Nasdaq
  • NeoGames on its US$1.2 billion sale to Aristocrat Leisure
  • ironSource on its US$4.4 billion merger with Unity Software
  • Lindsay Goldberg on a healthcare platform acquisition
  • Amdocs on a variety of strategic acquisitions
  • Meta on a US$100 million acqui-hire
  • Camtek Ltd. In the pricing of a private offering of US$175 million convertible senior notes
  • Citi, Barclays and Jefferies as global coordinators and placing agents on Bank Leumi’s NIS

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • J.D., New York University School of Law, 2018
  • BA, Columbia University, 2013

Languages Spoken

  • English