Tara Walsh

Managing Funds Counsel at Pension Protection Fund

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Tara is currently managing funds counsel at the Pension Protection Fund, where she primarily manages the PPF’s private markets portfolio where the PPF is an active institutional investor investing in a range of alternative asset classes (PE, infra, real estate and private credit) through a range of structures, but mainly direct flagship fund commitments, as well as co-investments and funds-of-one.

She is experienced private markets funds lawyer (both on the GP side but more so in her recent in-house roles on the LP side acting for various institutional investors, on bespoke, direct, and investment as well as pooled strategies / strictures). She also has prior experience as a senior lawyer and as sole counsel and head of legal for corporate with VCs and PE portfolio companies.

Tara’s career began with Freshfields in their private equity team, and she subsequently worked in private practice with other London based US firms and other City firms before moving inhouse.