Rob Emerson, Co-Head of the Investment Funds - Secondaries Group, advises private investment firms and their senior management on a wide variety of legal, compliance, and business issues, with an emphasis on fund formation and the funds transactional space.

Rob draws on two decades of vast experience in private equity and investment funds to guide clients through complex transactions, including:

  • Sponsor, fund, and investor-level preferred equity and other structured solutions
  • Buy-side and sell-side secondaries transactions
  • Innovative co-investment arrangements
  • Crisis management for key person, succession, and change of control situations
  • Strategic partnerships, spinouts, and joint ventures
  • Foreign and domestic fund formation

As a trusted strategic advisor, clients praise Rob for bringing a commercially calibrated approach to their most critical matters, delivering outcomes that are both technically rigorous and commercially viable.

Complementing his transactional practice, he has led fundraises for products that scale to over US$15 billion in size and actively counsels sponsors in navigating the evolving regulatory environment applicable to the private equity industry and registered investment advisors.

Rob is a frequent contributor to media publications, trainings, and industry conferences surrounding the private funds market.

In the community, Rob devotes significant time volunteering in the Scouting America program, including serving on the Board of Directors for Connecticut Yankee Council, the local organization where he previously received his Eagle Scout.

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • JD, Fordham University School of Law, 2008
    cum laude
  • BA, Fordham University, 2005
    summa cum laude

Practices