Jacqueline Eaves

Jacqueline Eaves is a partner in Goodwin’s Private Equity and Private Investment Funds groups. She focuses her practice on complex business transactions in the private funds secondary market, including traditional portfolio sales, preferred equity, and GP-led transactions. Jacqueline also has extensive experience on a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate advisory matters.

Recent representations include:

• Ares Secondaries Group:
  • On their indirect investment in an underlying UK real estate portfolio, held and managed by a multi-billion-euro asset manager
  • On their recapitalization investment into a market-leading light-industrial and logistics portfolio, which is managed by Slättö
• LGT Capital Partners   
  • As lead investor in FSN Capital’s continuation fund
  • As lead investor in a €450 million Ufenau three-asset continuation fund
  • As lead investor in a bespoke continuation fund co-investment vehicle
• Armen on its acquisition of a minority equity stake in Chorus Capital 
• Fortissimo Capital on a single-asset GP-led secondary transaction in which their latest flagship fund purchased securities of a motor-vehicle product manufacturing company 
• An investor in Astorg’s €1.4 billion continuation fund for Normec  

Jacqueline is a member of Level20, a not-for-profit organisation founded with the aim of improving gender diversity in the private equity industry.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Jacqueline was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis. Previously, she was an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton and Slaughter and May, where she trained.

Jacqueline is ranked by Chambers UK 2026 as Up and Coming in Investment Funds: Private Equity: Secondaries with clients noting that “Jacqueline is very knowledgeable, communicative and provides a lot of expertise on deals” and “is a top-tier attorney.” Jacqueline was also named a “2021 Secondaries Next Gen Leader” by Secondaries Investor, a list which recognizes the top 20 professionals working in the secondaries space aged 36 or younger.

• Co-Author, “Why Innovation is Core to the Secondaries Market,” Secondaries Investor, April 2026
• Co-Author, “Secondaries Unlocked: A Market Grown Up and Continuing to Evolve,” Private Equity Law Report, November 2025
• Quoted, “Secondary Activity Booms Despite Tariff Shock,” WSJ Private Equity, September 2025
• Panelist, “Understanding Secondaries in Venture Capital,” hosted by Sustainable Future Ventures, July 2025
• Quoted, “PEI’s 2025 GP Stakes Report,” Private Equity International, April 2025
• Panelist, “Untapped potential: What are the growth prospects for credit secondaries?,” SuperReturn International Conference, June 2024
• Moderator, “Built to Succeed: Structuring Your Legal Team with Vision & Purpose,” WIPL, March 2024
• Quoted, “Could AI be the future of LP secondaries?,” Private Equity International, September 2023
• Quoted, “Exploring What AI Can Bring To the Secondaries Table,” Private Equity International, September 2023
• Quoted, “ILPA Guidance Promotes Equitable Framework for Continuation Fund Transactions,” Private Equity Law Report, July 2023
• Co-Author, “Emerging Trends in the Evolving Continuation Fund Market,” Private Equity Law Report, July 2022
• Quoted, “On the Minds of the Next Gen: What’s Ahead for GP-Leds,” Private Equity International, March 2022
• Author, “The rise of GP-led secondaries,” Financier Worldwide, September 2021
• Co-Author, “A Comparison Between Two Liquidity Solution Tools: Preferred Equity and NAV Facilities,” Private Equity Law Report, October 2020
• Author, “Current Trends in the PE Secondary Market and Key Differences Between Europe and the U.S.,” Private Equity Law Report, October 2019