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Michael A. Gerstenzang is Cleary Gottlieb’s Managing Partner. He maintains an active practice focusing on private investment funds, including forming and advising private equity funds, credit funds, growth funds, special situations funds, infrastructure funds, venture capital funds, hedge funds, and other types of “alternative” investment vehicles. His practice also includes secondary transactions and co-investment arrangements, as well as representing limited partners in connection with private investment funds. He has represented fund sponsors and investment teams in connection with negotiating “seed” investments, spin-outs, joint ventures, and other general partner/management company arrangements. Michael regularly represents TPG, KKR, Blackstone, Coller Capital, and The Raine Group in fund formation and investment activities. He has also advised Viking Global, Victoria Capital Partners, RedBird Capital Partners and Hillhouse in a variety of matters. Michael is recognized as a leading investment funds lawyer by publications such as Chambers USA, Chambers Global, IFLR 1000 and Best Lawyers in America, and in 2017 was named by Legal 500 U.S. to its inaugural Hall of Fame. He received a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and a B.S., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University.