Key Takeaways
- • McGuireWoods named Murielle Dawdy Managing Director, Private Equity, tasking her with a leadership role in building McGuireWoods Capital Partners, the firm's new strategic private equity platform.
- • Dawdy joins from 50 South Capital Advisors, the alternative investments arm of Northern Trust, where she was director of private equity investments overseeing primary investments, secondaries and co-investments across a $15 billion global platform.
- • Dawdy will work with the firm's private equity attorneys to develop GP and LP relationships, expand the Emerging Manager Program and Independent Sponsor Initiative, and lead signature private equity conferences.
- • Dawdy is based in San Francisco, and the appointment was announced by the firm's leadership, including Jon Finger and Tom Zahn.
Summary
McGuireWoods has named Murielle Dawdy as Managing Director, Private Equity, and assigned her a leadership role in the development of McGuireWoods Capital Partners. The platform was launched to guide the evolution of the firm's Emerging Manager Program and Independent Sponsor Initiative, drawing on relationships with emerging managers, independent sponsors, institutional investors and other participants in private capital markets. Dawdy joins the firm in San Francisco.
Dawdy comes to McGuireWoods from 50 South Capital Advisors, the alternative investments arm of Northern Trust, where she served as director of private equity investments. According to the firm's announcement, she was a senior investor overseeing primary investments, secondaries and co-investments across a $15 billion global platform, directing investments and co-investments throughout the United States and Europe. She has also represented investors on the advisory boards of private equity and venture funds and advised family offices and major institutional clients.
In her role, Dawdy will work closely with McGuireWoods' private equity attorneys and firm leadership to advance the platform's objectives, which the firm describes as combining legal capabilities, market knowledge and a network of institutional and private capital. Her responsibilities include developing general partner and limited partner relationships, expanding engagement with emerging managers including select independent sponsors, cultivating strategic industry partnerships, helping lead the firm's private equity conferences and event initiatives, and integrating market intelligence and business development across the firm.
Jon Finger, partner and leader of McGuireWoods' Private Equity Industry Team and President of McGuireWoods Capital Partners, said Dawdy's allocator-side experience gives clients firsthand insight into how institutional investors evaluate emerging managers. Partner Tom Zahn, chair of the Corporate & Private Equity Department, said her investment experience adds value as clients raise capital, launch funds and pursue transactions. The firm states it consistently ranks among the leaders in U.S. and global M&A league tables, including private equity transactions. Dawdy said the firm has an exceptional foundation of relationships across the private equity community and that she looks forward to building on it.
Dawdy comes to McGuireWoods from 50 South Capital Advisors, the alternative investments arm of Northern Trust, where she served as director of private equity investments. According to the firm's announcement, she was a senior investor overseeing primary investments, secondaries and co-investments across a $15 billion global platform, directing investments and co-investments throughout the United States and Europe. She has also represented investors on the advisory boards of private equity and venture funds and advised family offices and major institutional clients.
In her role, Dawdy will work closely with McGuireWoods' private equity attorneys and firm leadership to advance the platform's objectives, which the firm describes as combining legal capabilities, market knowledge and a network of institutional and private capital. Her responsibilities include developing general partner and limited partner relationships, expanding engagement with emerging managers including select independent sponsors, cultivating strategic industry partnerships, helping lead the firm's private equity conferences and event initiatives, and integrating market intelligence and business development across the firm.
Jon Finger, partner and leader of McGuireWoods' Private Equity Industry Team and President of McGuireWoods Capital Partners, said Dawdy's allocator-side experience gives clients firsthand insight into how institutional investors evaluate emerging managers. Partner Tom Zahn, chair of the Corporate & Private Equity Department, said her investment experience adds value as clients raise capital, launch funds and pursue transactions. The firm states it consistently ranks among the leaders in U.S. and global M&A league tables, including private equity transactions. Dawdy said the firm has an exceptional foundation of relationships across the private equity community and that she looks forward to building on it.
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