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Marco V. Masotti is a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Over the past two decades, Marco has led and built the firm’s private funds group into one of the elite practices in the marketplace. His clients include a “who’s who” of alternative asset managers, including: Apollo, Atlas, Avenue, Blackstone/GSO, Clearlake, General Atlantic, KKR, Oak Hill, Reservoir, Roark, Silver Point, Värde and Wellspring. He also counsels many founders and partners of private equity and hedge fund businesses on their strategic initiatives. Over his career, he has assisted with fundraises in the range of several hundred billion dollars and in 2017, he led Apollo’s record-breaking fundraise of $24.7 billion for its flagship buyout fund. 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 manner.” Law360 named him a Private Equity MVP, the only funds lawyer on the list, and an Asset Management MVP.