
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
- Practice focuses on the domestic and international private investment funds industry.
- Particular emphasis on fund formation, including transformative secondary funds.
Fadi represents domestic and international fund sponsors in connection with organizing, structuring and operating private investment funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, venture capital funds, fund of funds, secondary funds and hedge funds. He advises institutional investors in connection with their investments in private investment funds, including acquiring and selling those investments on the secondary market.
Fadi also represents his investment fund clients in connection with their investment activity, including leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and minority equity investment transactions. In particular, he has represented private equity and venture capital funds in connection with numerous preferred stock investments in technology and emerging growth companies from their initial start-up phase through multiple rounds of financing, strategic growth and exit opportunities.
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.
- Chambers USA, Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation, 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.


