Ali Beidoun advises clients on all aspects of forming, investing in, and operating private investment funds.

Ali draws on a sophisticated understanding of the market to guide private fund sponsors, investors, and joint venture participants across multiple investment areas and asset classes, including:

  • Buyout funds
  • Credit and debt
  • Growth equity
  • Fund of funds
  • Real estate
  • Energy and power
  • Infrastructure

Ali’s experience includes:

  • Representing sponsors in organizing, negotiating, and operating US and global investment funds, including buyout, debt, and other funds
  • Structuring and negotiating fund agreements, co-investment arrangements, and internal sponsor arrangements
  • Structuring and negotiating bespoke fund arrangements and liquidity transactions, such as separately managed accounts, preferred equity investments, and annex funds
  • Structuring and negotiating seed investments in managers and their funds and bespoke sponsor upper tier arrangements
  • Representing institutional investors on fund investments and related transactions
  • Ongoing representation of fund entities and their portfolio companies on general corporate transactional and governance matters

Bar Qualification

  • District of Columbia
  • Michigan
  • Illinois

Education

  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2014
  • Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, University of Michigan, 2010

Practices