Stanley Birch is an associate in the Investment Funds & Private Capital practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. Stanley''s practice focuses on the representation of private fund sponsors and investors in all aspects of the structuring, documenting, offering, negotiating and operating of private investment funds, including real estate, credit and private equity funds making investments, conducting operations and raising capital on a global basis. He also represents institutional fund sponsors in connection with joint ventures and other strategic transactions involving private funds and fund management teams, as well as assisting newly formed fund sponsors in connection with all elements of the establishment of their management and investment fund platforms.

Stan has extensive experience assisting investment managers and institutional investors with separate account arrangements, co investment programs, “fund-of-one” structures, investment management agreements, and other bespoke and specialty investment arrangements.

Stan also assists private fund sponsors on upper-tier transactions including management company sales, minority (GP) stakes, seeding arrangements, revenue sharing arrangements and other strategic platform transactions.

Mr. Birch received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as the Managing Editor of the Virginia Law Weekly and as a member of the Virginia Journal of International Law. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Mr. Birch is admitted to practice law in New York.