John D. Cleaver focuses his practice on the private investment fund industry, representing buyers, sellers, and managers in secondary transactions of all types, including single-interest transactions, portfolio sales, tender offers and GP-led recapitalizations and restructurings. John also counsels investment banks, private investment funds, governmental and private pension plans, sovereign wealth plans, university endowments, family offices and global institutional investors on their investments in domestic and international private investment vehicles, including hedge funds, private equity funds, co-investment vehicles, funds of one and other private investment funds. John’s practice also involves the structuring, formation, governance, and regulation of private funds, managed accounts and other products.
Recommended, Investment fund formation and management, The Legal 500 US (2024)
Recommended, Private equity funds (including venture capital), The Legal 500 US (2024)
Recommended, Investment fund formation and management: Private equity funds (including venture capital), The Legal 500 US (2023)
Member, Practice Group of the Year, Asset Management, Law360 (2017)