August 5, 2025
New York, NY, August 5, 2025 -- Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP announced today that Benoit Champon has joined as a partner in the Asset Management Department, in the Firm’s London office. His practice is focused on fund formation with a particular emphasis on secondaries funds and secondaries transactions.
“Benoit brings substantial and varied fund formation experience to our global private funds team,” said Phil Isom, Chair of Willkie’s Private Funds practice group. “We are seeing continued momentum in the liquidity solutions sector worldwide, where we advise both buyers and sellers in LP-led secondaries transactions, and sponsors and investors in GP-led secondaries. Benoit’s comprehensive fund formation and transactional experience in the secondaries market will enhance our global capabilities, and we are delighted to welcome him to Willkie.”
Benoit advises on the formation and raising of alternative investment funds, including secondaries, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, venture capital and debt funds, representing both sponsors and investors. He has significant experience in secondaries transactions, on both the buyer and the seller sides.
Benoit has diverse experience both at law firms and as in-house counsel. He has worked for international law firms based across Europe and Asia, and has acted as in-house legal counsel for asset managers in Paris and London.
Benoit joins a team of more than 25 partners in Willkie’s Private Funds practice group who focus specifically on private fund formation and liquidity solutions transactions across the Firm’s offices in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, London, Paris and Frankfurt.
Benoit commented: “Willkie is highly regarded for its asset management platform, and the expansion in recent years of Willkie’s global private funds team has been impressive. The increased demand for liquidity solutions and growing volume of secondaries transactions presents significant opportunities, and I’m excited to work with Willkie’s talented practitioners in Europe and the U.S. to further extend Willkie’s private funds practice to clients worldwide.”
Willkie is recognized in the 2025 editions of Chambers France for Investment Funds and Chambers UK for Investment Funds: Private Equity, and in Chambers UK 2024: Investment Funds: Private Equity: Secondaries. Willkie’s Asset Management team is one of only four firms ranked by Chambers USA 2025 for each of Private Equity: Fund Formation; Investment Funds: Regulatory & Compliance; Investment Funds: Investor Representation; Hedge Funds; and Registered Funds.
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