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About the Role

The individual will be an integral member of Pantheon’s Global Primary and Co-investment Team, focused on the structuring, negotiation, and execution of infrastructure secondary transactions. This role is responsible for the closing of all investments across Pantheon’s private equity primary and co-investment business, coordinating all aspects of transaction execution, including complex negotiations and ensuring timely and accurate process adherence.

Responsibilities

Line managing and supervising a team of Analysts/Associates in the Investment Structuring Team.
Overseeing workload and staffing, monitoring work quality, providing training, feedback, and development guidance.
Ensuring deals are closed efficiently and accurately with all approvals, legal/AML checks, and client requirements met.
Leading the execution of all investment types, with a focus on complex co-investments and primary transactions.
Negotiating legal documents governing Pantheon transactions, including term sheets, SPAs, LPAs, framework agreements, shareholder agreements, and side letters.
Working with lenders on the execution of deal-level debt transactions, advising on debt terms, and negotiating facility documents.
Structuring investments to accommodate tax characteristics of participating clients and minimizing tax leakage.
Forming and operating acquisition structures, including Pantheon-managed SPVs.
Executing sales of fund interests on a portfolio and single-fund basis.
Serving as a resource for resolving complex structuring challenges on transactions across the Pantheon platform.
Ensuring compliance with Pantheon’s investor restrictions across the platform.
Reviewing client legal documentation to comment on strategy feasibility, investment restrictions, and legal requests.
Devising processes to ensure client needs can be met.
Identifying and sponsoring improvements to Pantheon’s closing and operational processes.
Representing the team on relevant internal committees and supervising major internal projects.
Maintaining strong relationships with senior operations managers.
Working with operations, treasury, finance, tax, legal, and back-office functions to improve investment processes.
Completing training of structuring and investment teams on key deal execution areas.
Ensuring deals are funded on time and without errors.
Ensuring compliance with investment processes for AML/KYC, NDAs, Access administration, deal approvals, closing notices, legal checklists, and regulatory approvals.
Ensuring compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and Pantheon policy, including reporting compliance risks and maintaining appropriate standards of conduct.

Requirements

Qualified lawyer/attorney permitted to practice law in any recognized jurisdiction.
At least six years of prior experience in a law firm or in-house environment executing private markets transactions.
Experience with direct private equity or private M&A transactions, and/or fund investments including primary fund investments, secondary transactions, and co-investments.
Substantial prior experience negotiating transaction documents including sale and purchase agreements, framework agreements, transfer documents, and joint venture/partnership documents.
Prior experience of the structuring, formation, marketing, and regulation of private markets investment vehicles is helpful but not essential.
Prior experience of executing debt transactions such as fund financings or project finance transactions is beneficial but not essential.
Ability to work across jurisdictions and time zones with different cultures and negotiating styles.
A high degree of attention to detail and accuracy in work completed.
Highly organized with strong project management skills and exceptional responsiveness.
Ability to manage multiple workstreams and transactions simultaneously.
Ability to work well in a team and supervise junior team members’ work.
High level of professionalism, confidentiality, discretion, and judgment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Computer literacy, including excellent working knowledge of Microsoft applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Ability to manage and prioritize workloads.
Ability to work to tight deadlines/under pressure.

Skills

Structuring
Negotiation
Execution of infrastructure secondary transactions
Investment structuring
Legal document negotiation
Deal-level debt execution
Tax structuring
Fund sales execution
Problem solving
Investor restrictions compliance
Investor onboarding
Process improvement
Project management
Team management
Written communication
Verbal communication
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Word
Microsoft PowerPoint

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

At least six years of prior experience

Education Level

Qualified lawyer/attorney

About the Company

Pantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years.
Reputation for an innovative approach to investing in secondaries, co-investments, and primary fund investments, as well as capital formation.
Specialist investment capabilities span multiple strategies across private equity, infrastructure and real assets, and private credit.
Collaborative and committed culture focused on solving complex problems and delivering innovative investment opportunities.
Manages approximately $82.3 billion in AUM across all strategies.
Serves more than 750 institutional and 638 private wealth clients worldwide.

Equal Opportunity

Pantheon is an Equal Opportunities employer, committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Encourages applications from candidates whose past experience doesn't perfectly align with the role requirements.