Practices
Kevin Cassidy is a partner in the firm’s Investment Management Group. He primarily represents institutional, emerging and first-time managers of private investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity funds, credit funds, venture capital funds, and real estate funds, with respect to formation, fundraising, regulatory compliance, and other day-to-day legal and operational issues. He also represents wealth and investment advisors. In addition, he advises on a wide range of business combinations in the asset management industry.
Kevin’s recent experience and thought leadership includes:
- Quoted in Hedge Fund Alert’s 2025 Annual Outlook Survey
- Panelist on a Strafford webinar titled, “Evergreen Fund Structures in Private Markets: Formation, Operation, Strategic Advantages, Risk Allocation”
- Kevin Cassidy Publishes Article in Private Equity Law Report Titled, “Structuring and Finance Considerations of Evergreen Private Credit Funds”
- Private Credit US Summit – Kevin Cassidy to speak on regulatory panel
- Kevin Cassidy Quoted in Law360 Article Titled, “Record PE Dry Powder Shows Slowed Exit Activity, Attys Say”
- M&A – Kennedy Lewis Investment Management receives Strategic Investment from Petershill at Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Seward & Kissel Represents Kennedy Lewis on Closing of Kennedy Lewis Capital Partners Master Fund III LP at $4.1 Billion of Commitments
- M&A – Business Combination between Tiedemann Advisors, TIG Advisors, Alvarium Investments Limited and Cartesian Growth Corporation (NASDAQ: GLBL)
Kevin holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from The George Washington University and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Albany Law School. While at Albany Law School, Kevin served on the editorial board of the Albany Law Review. He first joined the firm as a summer associate in 2012.