Kevin McNiff works with private investment fund sponsors on all aspects of fund formation. A significant portion of his practice involves advising clients on capital raising, marketing, preparing fund offering documents, and drafting fund organizational documents. He also counsels sponsors on regulatory, compliance, and operational issues both during an active fundraise and in later stages of a fund’s life cycle, including with respect to investment adviser registration and filings, sponsor-carried interest and management company arrangements, limited partner transfers, restructurings, and dissolution matters. Kevin’s sponsor clients include established and emerging venture capital, private equity, growth equity, and direct lending sponsors.
Additionally, Kevin’s experience includes counseling institutional investors — including governmental plans, family offices, banks and fund-of-funds — on their private capital investment activity. He also advises private investment fund sponsors, buyers, and sellers in secondary transactions. Kevin is a member of the firm’s Health care & Life Sciences and Innovative Technology Sectors.
Prior to joining Foley, Kevin worked as an associate in a New York-based corporate law firm, helping first-time fund managers form venture capital funds and a major U.S. venture capital syndicate form numerous special purpose investment vehicles. In 2020 Kevin served on the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) Task Force, helping to prepare a model Limited Partnership Agreement and related documents.
