Hamel Patel

Hamel Patel is a Senior Associate in the Private Investment Funds practice in Goodwin’s London office.

His practice focuses on the establishment of private equity, credit and secondaries funds. He also advises managers on a wide range of related structuring and transactional matters, including their incentivisation arrangements, co-investment arrangements and GP led structuring solutions.

Hamel also advises across a range of investor side mandates, including acting for clients who are corner-stoning new funds, acting as lead investors on complex secondary transactions and seeking liquidity solutions for their portfolios.

Hamel’s representative experience includes advising:

• Advent International on the fundraising of its $17.5 billion GPE IX Fund
• PGIM on the launch of a rated note SMA fund vehicle
• Ambienta on the establishment of its inaugural sustainability credit fund, Ambienta Sustainable Credit Opportunities Fund, which raised over €500 million
• Cubera Private Equity on the establishment of both Cubera IX which raised over €500 million and its successor fund, Cubera X which raised over €800 million each being the largest ever Nordic secondaries Fund at their respective points in time
• Investcorp on the establishment of an SMA co-investing in European PE investments
• BentallGreenOak on the structuring and on the establishment of its €2 billion flagship European Real Estate value-add Fund, BGO Europe IV
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on a GP-led secondary, raising over €1 billion of further commitments
• Lion Capital on the structuring and establishment of a GP-led continuation vehicle
• Prominent Investors for their investments into a range of mega-funds