Sam Kay

Sam is a partner in the Funds Department. He has over 20 years' experience advising on investment funds projects and has been a partner at Travers Smith since 2008.

He specialises in fund formation work for a wide range of private funds and asset management clients, predominantly in the private equity, private debt/credit, infrastructure, and real estate sectors.

He also works on secondaries transactions, carried interest arrangements, and co-investment schemes, advising institutional investors on their participation in funds and internal restructurings such as succession planning and management spin-outs.

The industry leading publications Sam has contributed to this year include:

Unquote
Private Funds Management
Private Equity International
Chambers Global Practice Guide on Investment Funds.

Sam was also involved in speaker opportunities and training sessions such as:

Invest Europe fund structuring workshops
speaker at SuperInvestor conference in Amsterdam
Unquote Roundtable.

Long-standing client Benson Elliot on the €830 million fundraising of Benson Elliot Fund V.
Hermes GPE on the GP-led secondary of a US$1 billion portfolio of a private equity funds of funds portfolio.
Hermes Infrastructure on the establishment and fundraising of Hermes Infrastructure Fund II.
Abris Capital Partners in its capacity on the fundraising of Abris CEE Mid-Market Fund III LP (€500 million).

Hermes GPE on the fundraising of its private equity co-investment fund, Hermes GPE PEC IV LP.
SV Health on the successful fundraising of the Dementia Discovery Fund with total commitments of £250 million.
ADM Capital on the successful fundraising of Cibus LP.
Fund formation and fundraising of PiP Multi Strategy Fund (£625 million).
Medicxi on the fundraising of its flagship fund, Medicxi III LP. (US$400 million)

Highly commercial with an astonishing breadth and depth of knowledge - when clients call him, they know he will have a solution to their problem and if he does not, he will find one.

Excellent technical knowledge and good commercial awareness.

Highly professional, engaging and consistent in meeting project timelines and goals. High degree of flexibility in accommodating changes to the client’s project plan. High degree of versatility in supporting non-legal financial matters, such as operational implementation and tax issues, of the project.

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