Christopher Good Partner

Partner

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Christopher advises on private fund formation, looking after fund sponsors who are establishing and operating private investment funds.

He advises across a range of asset classes, including private equity, credit, real estate, venture capital and growth and secondary capital. As well as advising on fundraisings, Christopher also advises upon and helps structure and implement carried interest, co-invest and other executive incentive schemes.

Christopher also regularly advises secondary purchasers and GP clients on secondary transactions, including portfolio transactions, liquidity solutions and fund recapitalisations and restructurings.

He is also regularly asked to advise institutional clients on their primary investment programmes, co-investment operations and bespoke management arrangements with managers.

Christopher has previously spent time on secondment with both Goldman Sachs and Legal & General Investment Management. He is a member of the Association of Partnership Practitioners and participates in Invest Europe’s working groups on legal and regulatory affairs.

Expertise

Recent work

Synova Capital

Advising Synova on its fifth fund, Synova V, which closed at its hard cap of £875m (exceeding its target of £750m).

Northern Gritstone

Advising Northern Gritstone, a new investment business focused on university spinouts in the north of England, on its initial fundraising, which raised £215m.

Signal Capital Partners

Advising UK private asset management firm Signal Capital Partners on the successful fundraising of its asset-backed stressed and distressed capital structures fund, which has closed at €900m.

Alchemy Special Opportunities

Advising Alchemy Special Opportunities on successfully raising its fourth special opportunities fund at the pre-set hard cap of £900m.

Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank

Advising funds managed by Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank in relation to the acquisition of the private equity assets of the National Bank of Greece for €320m and the simultaneous spin out of its management team.