Bio

Stephen Culhane co-heads the Investment Management practice and focuses primarily on representing sponsors of private equity, real estate, special situation and distressed investment funds, hedge funds, and funds of funds with respect to the structuring, formation, and operation of such fund products. Recent matters include private equity, venture capital, US real estate opportunity, and specialty finance fund products on behalf of global financial institutions and leading private fund managers. Mr. Culhane routinely assists management teams with the formation or restructuring of investment management firms, and he also assists clients with investments in, or acquisitions or dispositions of, investment management firms. He also advises select institutional investors with respect to their investments in private funds, and has extensive experience negotiating complex secondary transactions involving portfolios of fund and/or direct investments, as well as fund restructuring transactions. Previously, Mr. Culhane served as Associate General Counsel of Goldman Sachs and the Legal Director to Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Private Equity Group, where he served as the senior lawyer responsible for covering GSAM's private equity funds and direct hedge funds. Mr. Culhane has focused on private investment funds since the early 1990s and is a frequent speaker on issues relating to private investment funds. Mr. Culhane attended New York University School of Law, where he was Associate Editor of the New York University Review of Law and Social Change.