James Ford

Partner

James Ford is partner in the Investment Funds and Securitization Practice and works from O’Melveny’s London office. James has significant private equity and venture capital experience and focuses, in particular, on representing both general partners and limited partners in connection with the establishment of investment funds (both listed and unlisted) and on advising both purchasers and sellers of secondary investment portfolios.

Illustrative Professional Experience

• a wide range of portfolio acquisitions for a leading secondaries manager, including spin-out transactions from investment banks and corporate sellers;
• the formation of a US$1.5 billion single manager fund-of-funds listed on Euronext Amsterdam and of a permanent capital mezzanine fund for a leading US private equity house;
• establishment and fundraising for a series of funds for a global emerging markets manager;
• establishment of a range of mid-market funds focused on particular regions within continental Europe;
• advising major institutional limited partners, including sovereign wealth funds, on all aspects of their investment programmes, including LP fund investments, co-investments and general partner participations;
• establishment, fundraising and admission to trading on the London markets (main market and AIM) for a number of closed-ended funds;
• substantial private equity acquisitions in the chemicals and pharmaceutical sectors