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Marion Cossin
Managing Director, Private Capital Advisory, LAZARD in Paris
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Marion Cossin is a Managing Director at Lazard in the Private Capital Advisory team and heads the secondary advisory team in Paris. Marion has over 10 years of investment banking experience in secondaries. Her experience includes a full range of liquidity solutions transactions in the EMEA region. Prior to joining Lazard, Marion was part of the TMT M&A team at Credit Suisse in London. Marion graduated from Oxford University, Sciences Po and Columbia University.
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Raphaël Bloch
Partner, Investment Funds, KIRKLAND & ELLIS
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Raphaël Bloch is an investment funds partner in the Paris office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Raphaël advises investment fund European sponsors on the establishment and operation of funds and separate accounts across the alternative asset spectrum including private equity, credit and real assets as well as on GP-led fund restructurings and other liquidity solutions transactions. Raphaël also has deep experience with the establishment of fund management companies, carried interest and co-investment schemes specific to France.
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Daniel Benin
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, COMMITED ADVISORS
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Daniel Benin is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Committed Advisors, a global secondary fund manager, who raised and manages over USD 7 billion since 2010. Daniel has over 24 years of private equity experience in the secondary space.
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Aleksander Bakic
Partner, Investment Funds, KIRKLAND & ELLIS
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Aleksander Bakic is an investment funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Aleks co-leads the European Liquidity Solutions Team, which is ranked Band 1 in the 2024 edition of Chambers UK. He advises clients on the structuring and negotiation of a wide range of secondary transactions, from fund book deals to GP and LP-led restructurings of single assets or wider portfolios.
Aleks has particular experience in highly complex, cross-border transactions involving management spin-outs, stapled, syndicated and tendered deals, as well as deferred consideration. In addition, Aleks works with private equity funds and their investors on a wide range of investment funds matters. His experience spans across private equity, infrastructure and credit products, in established and developing markets.
Aleks is recognised as a leading lawyer by Chambers UK, The Legal 500 and IFLR1000.
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Theodore Cardos
Partner, Investment Funds, KIRKLAND & ELLIS
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Theodore Cardos is a private funds partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Theodore co-leads the European Liquidity Solutions Team, which is ranked Band 1 in the 2024 edition of Chambers UK. His practice primarily involves structuring, negotiating and documenting complex business transactions in the private funds secondary market, including traditional continuation vehicles, portfolio sales, structured secondaries, synthetic secondaries, stapled secondary offerings, preferred equity and fund recapitalizations. Representative clients include CapVest, HarbourVest, Hollyport, Landmark Partners, Lexington, Nordic Capital, Partners Group, Triton, Vitruvian and Waterland.