Blayne A. Grady
Partner
bgrady@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Hedge Funds
- Credit Funds
- Emerging Markets Funds Transactions
- Energy & Natural Resources Funds
- Seeding Transactions
- Real Estate & Infrastructure Funds
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Investment Management
- Real Estate
- Solar
- Wind
- Infrastructure & Transportation
- Renewable Energy
- Structured Credit
- Energy Transition
- Technology
- Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency & Blockchain
- Litigation Finance
- Global Investment Adviser Regulatory
- Institutional Investors
- Fund Formation
- Fund Manager Transactions
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Energy & Infrastructure Private Equity
- Private Capital
Biography
- Represents private equity fund sponsors in complex fund structuring and negotiation.
- Has deep experience in credit fund structuring.
- Advises fund managers and investors in connection with manager sales.
Blayne regularly represents private equity fund sponsors in connection with both U.S. and international funds throughout the life cycle of a private equity fund. He also advises registered investment advisers with respect to regulatory compliance. In addition, he counsels institutional investors in connection with investments in private equity funds, hedge funds and direct co-investments.
Blayne brings a breadth of market knowledge to bear in helping clients handle complex fund structuring and negotiation.
Blayne handles transactional matters involving:
- Private equity fund formation
- Fund investment
- Fund manager transactions and seed investments
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Securities offerings
- Stock and asset purchases
- Equity and debt financings
- Strategic growth opportunities
- Exit strategies.
Representative Work
- Structured, formed and negotiated a $632 million fund focused on regulatory capital relief transactions on behalf of a fund sponsor.
- Represented fund sponsors in the structuring, formation and negotiation of a series of investment fund vehicles in connection with a $3.4 billion private equity fund focused on renewable and alternative energy.
- Advised a private equity fund sponsor in connection with the formation and negotiation of a €2.25 billion investment fund and a €762 million investment fund, each targeting European real estate investments.
- Counseled a credit fund sponsor in the formation and negotiation of a multijurisdiction, multibillion-dollar series of credit and regulatory capital relief-focused vehicles.
- Represented a private equity fund sponsor in connection with the acquisition and eventual $790 million sale of a U.K.-based offshore wind turbine installation company.
"Blayne is always very responsive, knowledgeable, pragmatic and a pleasure to work with."
Chambers USA, 2022
EducationJ.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude, 2002
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, magna cum laude, 1999
J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude, 2002
B.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, magna cum laude, 1999
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
District of Columbia
Recognitions
- Chambers Global, Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation, 2022 and 2024.
- Chambers USA, Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation, 2021 and 2023-2024.
- The Legal 500 US, Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital, 2022-2024.
Speeches and Publications
- “Different Forms of Private Equity Financing for Oil and Gas,” 65th Annual Oil & Gas Law Conference, Houston, February 2014.
