Nicholas C. Cassin

NICHOLAS CASSIN is a leading practitioner in the secondaries space. He has extensive experience advising secondaries buyers and fund sponsors on a full range of fund liquidity transactions across multiple alternative asset classes, including private equity, real estate, venture capital, and infrastructure. His secondary market experience includes traditional portfolio sales, preferred equity and stapled secondaries, and GP-led fund restructurings. For more than 15 years, Nicholas has applied his extensive secondaries experience to work with clients on all types of liquidity solutions transactions in private markets, representing an excess of US$50 billion in value.

In 2018, he was named to Secondaries Investor’s list of the “Next Gen Leaders of Secondaries.”

Prior to joining Sidley, Nicholas was a partner at another global elite law firm in their investment funds and transactional practice.

Nicholas is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Jay Heritage Center, a New York-based non-profit dedicated to transforming the former home of John Jay into an educational campus focused on American History, Social Justice, and Environmental Stewardship.