Mr John F. Anderson

Partner at Goodwin

Discussion leader

John F. Anderson joined Goodwin in 2024 as a partner in the Private Investment Funds practice at Goodwin. John advises clients across the globe with complex regulatory, tax, financing and other structuring issues in all aspects of fund formation, most notably for private credit funds in the corporate, venture and real estate asset classes (including funds investing in senior and subordinated debt, preferred equity, structured credit, venture debt, and real estate debt). He has experience working across the spectrum of alternative assets structures and jurisdictions, including open-ended, closed-ended and hybrid format funds, commingled funds and separate account arrangements, structured investments into private funds such as rated notes feeders and CFOs, European funds with Irish, Luxembourg, or UK structures, US-based funds and funds based in typical offshore jurisdictions. John’s experience extends to fund platform development and maintenance matters, including greenfield manager setups and restructurings, joint-venture arrangements and carried interest and related team incentives planning. John also advises on co-investment and secondaries transactions, with a particular focus on credit secondaries.