
Fadi G. Samman
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Private Funds Liquidity Solutions
- Credit Funds
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Investment Management
- Fund Formation
- Private Equity
- Capital Solutions
- Seeding Transactions
- Hedge Funds
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Institutional Investors
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Capital
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Real Estate
- Infrastructure
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Sovereign & Government Investors
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Co-head of Akin’s Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions Practice.
- Represents asset managers and institutional investors in connection with the formation of private investment funds across all asset classes.
- Market-leading experience advising on complex secondaries transactions, including continuation funds, tender offers, spin-out arrangements, preferred equity transactions, structured secondaries and traditional portfolio sale.
The world’s most sophisticated investors and fund managers turn to Fadi to structure and execute complex secondaries transactions and form private investment funds across private equity, credit, real estate and other asset classes.
Fadi began his career as a venture capital lawyer advising start-up companies in the technology sector. This unique experience has allowed him to bring a broad and unique perspective to his current work, with an understanding of issues across the legal and commercial spectrum.
Chambers and The Legal 500 have recognized Fadi as a first-rate investment fund formation and secondaries lawyer, with clients praising his “incredible wealth of experience” and describing him as a “zealous advocate.”
Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions
Fadi co-leads the firm’s Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions practice and brings more than 20 years of experience to the role. Widely recognized as one of the industry’s most experienced secondaries lawyers, he brings that perspective to each matter, providing advice to clients through the lens of an industry veteran who has advised on the full spectrum of issues for over two decades.
He represents some of the most prominent secondaries investors in the world, including Apollo S3, Blackrock Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions, Coller Capital, CVC Secondary Partners, Jasper Ridge Partners and Pantheon Ventures, among others.
Fund Formation
Fadi also represents domestic and international fund sponsors in connection with the structuring, formation and operations of private investment funds, including private equity funds, credit funds, real estate funds, fund of funds and secondary funds.
He also advises institutional investors, including prominent sovereign wealth funds, in connection with their investments in private investment funds and co-investments.
His clients include BGO, Brightwood Capital, Iron Point Partners, Jasper Ridge Partners, Proterra Investment Partners and Mubadala Capital, among others.
A leading voice in the industry, Fadi is regularly interviewed by major media outlets seeking his perspective on developments in the secondaries market and investment funds industry.
Secondaries and Liquidity Solutions
- Advised Coller Capital and Apollo S3 on CVC Capital Partners’ landmark transaction involving Ahlsell, a Nordic industrial technical products distributor.
- Advised Apollo S3 as a lead investor in TDR Capital LLP’s continuation vehicle to acquire majority control of David Lloyd Leisure, Europe’s largest operator of premium racquets, health and fitness clubs.
- Advised Apollo S3 as a lead investor in Tikehau Capital’s €1 billion private equity continuation fund for its portfolio company Egis.
- Advised Apollo S3 alongside Blackstone and Ardian, in the acquisition of a portfolio of fund interests from Kaiser Permanente with a transaction value of $5 billion. Recognized by Secondaries Investor as one of the five top deals of 2023.
- Advised BlackRock as a lead investor in a $450 million multi-asset continuation fund sponsored by Palladium Equity Partners LLC.
- Advised BlackRock as a lead investor in a single-asset continuation fund sponsored by Behrman Capital with a value of approximately $500 million.
- Advised BlackRock as a lead investor in Seven2’s €400 million continuation fund to support two strategic assets, Marlink and Crystal, and finance their development plans.
- Advised BlackRock as a purchaser of a portfolio of fund interests with a transaction value of over $450 million.
- Advised Mubadala Capital in a $4 billion stapled secondary transaction involving $2.5 billion in private equity assets and the formation of a new private equity fund with $1.5 billion in commitments from Ardian. Recognized as the largest stapled secondary ever at the time.
- Advised CVC Secondary Partners as a lead investor in Rubicon Technology Partners’ $500 million single-asset continuation fund to extend its partnership with Cin7, a global leader in cloud-based inventory management software.
- Advised Alpine Grove in a GP-led recapitalization of Aurelis Real Estate, a German light industrial real estate operating company with a €1.7 billion portfolio of industrial and land assets.
- Advised GE Capital in its landmark disposition of over 300 fund interests post Volcker Rule.
- Advised Jasper Ridge Partners in numerous secondaries acquisitions and dispositions.
Fund Formation
- Advised BGO, a leading global real estate investment adviser and a globally recognized provider of real estate services, in the formation of BentallGreenOak Asia IV, its flagship Asia-focused value-add real estate strategy, raising over $5.1 billion in total capital commitments for the fund and co-investment sidecars. The fund targets value-add opportunities in office, hospitality and logistics assets across Japan, South Korea, Australia and Singapore, and represents the largest closed-end capital raise in BGO’s history.
- Advised BGO in connection with its inaugural Industrial Strategies Fund I, with total platform commitments of $800 million.
- Advised FoxPath Capital Partners, an independent alternative investment firm focused on credit secondaries, in its long-term partnership with Reinsurance Group of America, a leading global life and health reinsurer. Under the partnership, Reinsurance Group of America will make a strategic investment in, and multi-fund anchor commitments to FoxPath.
- Advised Mubadala Capital in connection with the formation of its fourth private equity fund, MIC Capital Partners IV (Fund IV), with total commitments of $3.1 billion.
- Advised Proterra Investment Partners LP on the formation of its second private credit fund, Proterra Credit Fund 2 LP, with over $500 million in commitments.
- Advised Brightwood Capital in connection with numerous closed-end and evergreen credit funds.
EducationJ.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1999
B.A., Georgetown University, 1996
J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1999
B.A., Georgetown University, 1996
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
Maryland
District of Columbia
Maryland
- Chambers Global, Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation, 2025-2026.
- Chambers USA, Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation and Private Equity: Secondaries, 2019-2025.
- Recommended by The Legal 500 US in Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds (2016–2017) and Private Equity Funds (2015–2025).
- Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2013-2014.
- Board member, Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS)/USA.



