Ravi Chopra is a partner in the Private Investment Funds team and is a co-leader of Goodwin’s Secondaries Practice, a practice bringing together an international team of lawyers with extensive experience in domestic and global cross-border secondaries transactions. Mr. Chopra specializes in structuring private capital vehicles across real assets, private equity, and technology and life sciences.
Mr. Chopra deals extensively with international fund structuring, investor negotiations, co-investment platforms, and house incentivization and equity arrangements. He has particular expertise in advising on longer-term capital structures and multicurrency solutions.
Prior to joining Goodwin in 2017, Mr. Chopra practiced at King & Wood Mallesons (formerly SJ Berwin).
Mr. Chopra has an international client base, spanning Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S. He regularly negotiates with European insurance and pension fund investors, U.S. state pension plans, sovereign wealth plans, and development finance institutions (DFIs), including CDC Group, DEG, FMO, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the European Investment Fund (EIF), International Finance Corp. (IFC), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
He has joined the impact investment initiative at Goodwin and commonly advises first-time and second-time fund managers on seed capital, joint ventures, and team arrangements.
Representative matters include:
Mr. Chopra also has broad experience of listing and secondary transactions on the London Stock Exchange, the Channel Islands Stock Exchange, and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, including acting on ICG-Longbow Senior Secured UK Property Debt Investments Ltd. (main market IPO, secondary, change of investment policy)* and the public reverse takeover of Wichford PLC by Redefine International PLC (now RDI REIT PLC).*
* Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.
Mr. Chopra delivers an annual seminar for Invest Europe introducing fund executives to fund structuring considerations.
Mr. Chopra spent six months working in the UK Parliament from Q3 2009 to Q1 2010.
Mr. Chopra is recognized by UK Legal Week as a 2020 Private Equity Rising Star.
Mr. Chopra has recently been recognized in Legal 500 across Real Estate Funds and Private Funds, where client testimonials have noted his “outstanding technical skillset,” “sound commercial advice” and “solutions-oriented approach.”
Mr. Chopra has written extensively in relation to permanent capital vehicles and emerging markets, including contributing a chapter to Private Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa (PEI 2016), as well as an article for an EMPEA technical bulletin and an article for African Business Review.
Mr. Chopra’s recent publications include:
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