Sidley Austin LLP has appointed John Muno as a Partner in the firm’s Investment Funds group based in the Chicago office. He joins from Kirkland & Ellis where he served a similar role.
Muno focuses his practice on the formation and operation of private equity investment funds across a wide range of strategies, including leveraged buyouts, distressed investments, secondaries, growth equity, and fund of funds.
He has represented sponsors in the formation of funds ranging from multibillion-dollar funds to smaller first-time funds targeting a variety of industries. Muno also advises clients on continuation funds, annex funds, investment structuring, cross-fund transactions, and other complex transactions.
Muno is known for resolving complex issues and offering practical solutions, drawing on his background in securities, tax laws, and regulatory matters affecting investment firms and funds. He also advises on internal management, governance, operations, succession planning, and GP stakes transactions.
Sidley has attracted significant talent to its Investment Funds practice over the past 12 months, adding Shane Goudey, who leads the firm’s Venture Capital fund formation practice from Palo Alto, Mathew Eapen in Boston, who focuses on venture capital, growth equity, and technology- and healthcare-focused funds, and Ed Gander, the head of Sidley’s London Private Funds group, where he will be joined in the coming weeks by Stephen Fox and Peter Boulle. Together, they serve global fund managers across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and secondaries funds.
The Investment Funds practice group serves a broad range of investment fund and asset managers, as well as many other market participants. The group has approximately 130 corporate, securities, and derivatives lawyers dedicated to investment funds, investment management, and derivatives work worldwide, and works closely with our sophisticated tax, benefits, regulatory, enforcement, and other related practices.
