Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Benoit Champon as a Partner in the Asset Management Department, in the firm’s London office, focusing on fund formation with a particular emphasis on secondaries funds and secondaries transactions.
Benoit advises on the formation and raising of alternative investment funds, including secondaries, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital, and debt funds, representing both sponsors and investors. He has significant experience in secondaries transactions, on both the buyer and the seller sides.
Benoit has diverse experience both at law firms and as in-house counsel. He has worked for international law firms based across Europe and Asia, and has acted as in-house legal counsel for asset managers in Paris and London.
Benoit joins a team of more than 25 partners in Willkie’s Private Funds practice group who focus specifically on private fund formation and liquidity solutions transactions across the Firm’s offices in New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, London, Paris, and Frankfurt.
Willkie is recognised in the 2025 editions of Chambers France for Investment Funds and Chambers UK for Investment Funds: Private Equity, and in Chambers UK 2024: Investment Funds: Private Equity: Secondaries.
Willkie’s Asset Management team is one of only four firms ranked by Chambers USA 2025 for each of Private Equity: Fund Formation; Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance; Investment Funds: Investor Representation; Hedge Funds; and Registered Funds.
