Solomon Wifa
Partner
Solomon Wifa is a partner in the London office of O’Melveny & Myers and a member of the Investment Funds & Securitization Practice. Solomon has significant experience in the investment funds sector and has acted on a number of international and domestic private equity transactions including the establishment of private equity, hedge, buyout, mezzanine and venture capital funds and carried interest schemes. He has also advised on a number of buy-out, venture and development capital investments.
Solomon has advised on a wide range of primary and secondary transactions in private equity and hedge funds and has advised on a variety of sector focused funds, including funds focused on sectors such as renewable energy, real estate, technology, infrastructure. He has also advised on emerging market funds focused on China, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Turkey and Central and Eastern European. Solomon’s recent transactions include advising:
- Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan Board on a US $1 billion joint venture investment fund with an affiliate of Barclays Capital focused primarily on structured principal debt investments.
- Actis Capital on fundraising in excess of US$3 billion including funds focused on investments in India, China, Africa and Latin America.
- Portland Capital LLP and Sir Ronald Cohen (founder of Apax Partners) on the establishment of a real estate hedge fund management business.
- Sovereign wealth funds, funds of funds and other institutional investors, including the likes of IDeA Capital, CDC Group plc, Parish Capital, GIC Special Investments, Orthogonal Partners and USB, investing in private equity and/or hedge funds.
Solomon qualified as a solicitor in 1999 and is ranked as a leading adviser by Chambers UK Guide to the Legal Profession 2010 which notes his "impressive expertise in fund formation in the emerging economies of Africa, China and India".