Luca Del Ciotto

Associate
Luca Del Ciotto
New York
+1 212 459 7026
Luca Del Ciotto is an associate in Goodwin’s Private Investment Funds practice advising sponsors and investors in liquidity solutions transactions, such as single and multi-asset continuation vehicle transactions, tender offers, portfolio sales and other complex secondaries transactions. Prior to joining Goodwin, Luca practiced within the liquidity solutions team at one of the largest law firms in the United States. Luca also previously practiced as an attorney in the Cayman Islands, advising private equity and hedge fund sponsors on all aspects of fund formation, structuring, management and ongoing regulatory and compliance matters for Cayman domiciled funds. Luca also trained as a corporate M&A associate at the Melbourne offices of leading Australian law firm Gilbert + Tobin, specializing in private equity transactions.

Experience

Prior to joining Goodwin in January 2024, Luca worked at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in New York.

  • Advising Accel-KKR Capital Partners, a leading technology focused private equity firm, on the successful formation of Accel-KKR Capital Partners CV IV, LP a $1.765 billion multi-asset continuation vehicle for Accel- KKR's 2013 Vintage technology buyout fund
  • Audax Private Equity in a single-asset lift out of its portfolio company Aspen Surgical Products and formation of a continuation fund
  • Significant experience advising leading secondaries buyers, such as Whitehorse, HarbourVest and Ares / Landmark, on 15+ complex secondaries transactions (including lead investor representations and buy side portfolio trade transactions) with an aggregate transaction value in excess of $1 billion 
  • Significant experience advising leading sovereign wealth and private equity funds in complex LP portfolio trade sale transactions (including by way of tender offer transactions with a stapled commitment component, where applicable, to a new primary fund) with an aggregate transaction value of in excess of $2 billion
 

Credentials

Education

JD2016

Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia

BCommAccounting and Finance2011

University of Melbourne, Australia

Admissions

Bars

  • Victoria, Australia
  • Cayman Islands
  • New York