Stephen Culhane Bio

Stephen Culhane is a partner in the Firm's Mergers & Acquisitions practice group and a private investment funds specialist in our New York office. He advises clients on a broad spectrum of private investment fund formation, investment management, and corporate matters. He has extensive experience representing the sponsors, managers, and distributors of various private investment funds, including private equity, real estate, hedge funds, and funds of funds. Additionally, he represents select institutional investors in private funds, negotiating primary and complex secondary investments. Mr. Culhane routinely assists management teams with the formation or restructuring of investment management firms and advises clients on investments in, or acquisitions and dispositions of, such firms. His recent work includes advising on the structuring, formation, and operation of special situation and distressed investment funds, venture capital, U.S. real estate opportunities, and specialty finance fund products for global financial institutions and leading private fund managers. He also has extensive experience negotiating complex secondary transactions involving portfolios of fund and/or direct investments, as well as fund restructuring transactions. Mr. Culhane has been recognized repeatedly in Chambers USA as a leading practitioner in fund formation, as well as in The International Who's Who of Private Funds Lawyers, The Expert Guide to the World's Leading Private Equity Lawyers and the New York section of the Best Lawyers in America guide. He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Private Funds Committee, one of the leading private investment fund groups in New York, served as a member of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Historical Society, and of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance. Mr. Culhane has focused on private investment funds since the early 1990s and is a frequent speaker on issues relating to private investment funds. Previously, he 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 attended New York University School of Law, where he was Associate Editor of the New York University Review of Law and Social Change.