Meet the Speakers

Fadi represents domestic and international fund sponsors in connection with organizing, structuring and operating private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, venture capital funds, fund of funds, secondary funds and hedge funds. He advises institutional investors in connection with their investments in private investment funds, including acquiring and selling those investments on the secondary market.

Fadi also represents his investment fund clients in connection with their investment activity, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and minority equity investment transactions. In particular, he has represented private equity and venture capital funds in connection with numerous preferred stock investments in technology and emerging growth companies from their initial start-up phase through multiple rounds of financing, strategic growth and exit opportunities.

Tim’s practice focuses on private capital, specifically fund formation and secondaries transactions, and the regulatory aspects critical to both. He represents a wide range of private equity and private capital clients and has experience with forming not only traditional buyout funds, but also funds in the credit, real estate, infrastructure and agriculture spaces. Tim has repeatedly represented private fund managers in the formation of closed-end funds that invest in a wide variety of strategies, geographies and industries.

Tim is repeatedly recognized as a leading Private Equity (or Investment Fund) lawyer by, among others, Chambers USA, Chambers Global, The Legal 500, The Best Lawyers in America and The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers.

He is a member of the Private Investment Fund Forum.

Brian is a Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of FoxPath Capital Partners, responsible for originating, underwriting, executing and managing fund investments. Brian is well regarded across the industry as one of the pioneers of the institutional credit secondaries market. Prior to FoxPath, Brian founded the credit secondary strategy (S3 Credit Solutions) at Apollo Global Management where he led deal underwriting, execution and business development. Prior to founding the credit secondary business, Brian was an Investment Principal in Apollo’s Corporate Credit business, where he accumulated experience investing on behalf its direct lending, syndicated corporate credit and opportunistic mandates. Brian also previously worked in the Investment Banking and Corporate Finance Advisory divisions at Wells Fargo and Royal Bank of Scotland, respectively. Brian graduated with a B.S. in Finance, summa cum laude, from the University of Connecticut. Brian is a CFA Charterholder, a PEI NextGen Secondaries Leader inductee and a member of the Endowment Investment Committee for Fiver Children’s Foundation.