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Marco V. Masotti is recognized as one of the country’s leading funds lawyers in the alternative asset management industry. He has served as a member of the firm’s Management Committee. For more than two decades, Marco has led and built the firm’s private funds group into one of the elite practices in the marketplace. Ranked Band 1 in Chambers, Marco is widely regarded as “one of the most exceptional lawyers in the area” for his “unparalleled experience and extraordinary reach in the fund formation space.” He is hailed as a “superstar” attorney who is a “master of explaining complicated or legalistic concepts in a simple matter.” Law360 named him a Private Equity MVP, the only funds lawyer on the list, and an Asset Management MVP. EXPERIENCE Marco has a unique profile in the marketplace as an adviser to a wide variety of investment funds, including private equity funds, credit funds, growth capital funds, hedge funds and real estate funds. Over the course of his career, he has raised billions of dollars for his clients, including some of the most well-known alternative asset managers in the marketplace: Apollo, Atlas, Avenue, Blackstone/GSO, Clearlake, General Atlantic, KKR, KPS, Oak Hill, Reservoir, Roark, Silver Point, Värde and Wellspring. In 2017, Marco assisted with Apollo’s $24.7 billion flagship fund, the world’s largest private equity fund.