Kelly Labritz represents alternative asset managers and investors on a range of transactions related to private funds and their general partners. She has advised on several groundbreaking GP-led fund restructurings and GP stake transactions, as well as numerous acquisitions and divestitures of private fund interests on the secondary market.

She also represents private fund sponsors on fund formation and operational activities, regulatory compliance, establishment of credit facilities and executive compensation arrangements, and advises fund investors, including institutional and family office investors, in connection with their primary, secondary and co-investment activities.

Clients describe Kelly as "outstanding … in command of the issues" and the “the smartest, most unflappable, creative” lawyer whom they trust to "just get the deal done."

Earlier in her career, Kelly spent a decade as a corporate M&A attorney, and has spent her time since 2007 focused on the private fund industry. Kelly's combination of corporate M&A and private funds experience uniquely qualifies her for work on fund-related transactional matters, such as fund restructurings, GP stake investments and secondary acquisitions and dispositions, which require both in-depth private funds industry knowledge and technical M&A skills.

She played a key role in the 2012 restructuring of Willis Stein & Partners III, which EuroMoney described as "The first ever successful, comprehensive and contemporaneous restructuring of an independent private equity investment vehicle and its manager.” Recently she also advised on the first such transaction to take place in Mexico.

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