Peter Naismith

I am a Partner in McDermott Will & Schulte’s investment management group, based in New York. My focus is on advising sponsors of private funds with respect to their structuring, formation and ongoing operational needs, and assisting institutional and high net worth investors to make commingled fund, “fund of one” and managed account investments, including as a seed or anchor investor. My sponsor clients include a variety of hedge and crossover fund, private equity fund, venture capital fund, and private credit fund sponsors, and my investor clients include family offices and high net worth individuals, endowments, insurance and reinsurance companies, and other institutions. My work with sponsors and investors is informed by my time as an in-house counsel for an asset manager and many prior years of public and private M&A experience gained at law firms in New York, London and Australia. I am currently ranked in the hedge funds and investor representation categories of the Chambers Global and USA Guides. Immediately prior to joining Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in 2016, I spent 5 years as in-house counsel with a well-known asset manager, where I focused on fund formation, hedge fund and private equity fund seed investments, and private wealth management matters.