Integral in the launch of the Firm’s Family Office Practice, Senior Counsel Amanda McGovern advises family offices on the formation and ongoing management of family offices and concentrates her practice on complex regulatory matters, including compliance with, or exemption from, registration under the Advisers Act, as well as the structuring of acquisitions of other investment managers.
Amanda is also a member of the Firm’s Private Funds Practice and has over twenty years of fund formation experience representing both general partners and limited partners. She concentrates her practice on the formation and operation of private equity funds, hedge funds, co-investment funds, funds-of-one and other similar custom arrangements.
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Work Highlights
- Representation of families in the formation of family offices utilizing the Lender structure and advice relating to expense allocation issues to maximize income tax efficiency for the family, employee matters and ownership and control issues
- Representation of a family with the formation, ongoing governance and administration of a family trust company
- Representation of a family office and trustees of family trusts worth billions of dollars on a trust restructure to provide asset protection and fiduciary liability protection on the acquisition of a high-risk asset
- Representation of a family office in the structuring of a real estate investment with third party co-investors
- Representation of a family office with the spin-out of its private equity team, along with related tax and employment matters following departure of certain key employees and the restructuring of the team investment vehicle
- CVC in the establishment and closing of its buyout fund, CVC Capital Partners IX, at €26 billion
- Stonecroft Management, as part of a syndicate consisting of U.S. and international investors, in its minority investment in Thrive Capital
- Patria Investments Ltd. in its business combination with Moneda Asset Management
- Round Hill Capital in its strategic minority investment in Round Hill by Dyal Capital Partners
- BC Partners in the raising of BC European Capital X, BC Partners' tenth flagship private equity fund, with a final close at its €7 billion
- BC Partners in a tender offer made by Lexington Partners to limited partners in BC European Capital IX, BC Partners’ 2011 vintage, €6.7 billion private equity fund
- SSG Capital Management in the formation of its third Asia-Pacific special situations and distressed investments private equity fund, SSG Capital Partners III, L.P., with $915 million in capital commitments
Education
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University of Virginia School of Law, 2001 J.D.
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University of Pennsylvania, 1995 B.A.
magna cum laude
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University of Oxford, Somerville College,
Admissions
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Hong Kong 2011
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New York 2002
Integral in the launch of the Firm’s Family Office Practice, Senior Counsel Amanda McGovern advises family offices on the formation and ongoing management of family offices and concentrates her practice on complex regulatory matters, including compliance with, or exemption from, registration under the Advisers Act, as well as the structuring of acquisitions of other investment managers.
Amanda is also a member of the Firm’s Private Funds Practice and has over twenty years of fund formation experience representing both general partners and limited partners. She concentrates her practice on the formation and operation of private equity funds, hedge funds, co-investment funds, funds-of-one and other similar custom arrangements.
Amanda manages the Firm’s World Sky resources and specializes in advising clients on matters related to global offerings of private funds. She also has significant experience in representing limited partners in connection with their investments into private equity funds, and her experience includes the representation of certain universities, foundations, cultural institutions, family offices and sovereign wealth funds.
Amanda has been with the Firm since 2001 and was previously based in the Firm’s Hong Kong office from 2008 to 2015. She is admitted to the Hong Kong Law Society as a Solicitor and is also admitted to practice law in the State of New York. She received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude.