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J. Pablo Gardea
Senior Associate Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, Spanish
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Pablo Gardea brings a creative and effective approach when advising fund sponsors in fund formation matters. He is skilled at offering and negotiating solutions tailored to each client's investment strategy.
Pablo regularly advises established and first-time investment fund sponsors on fund structuring, corporate governance and investor relations matters, as well as individuals and institutions on potential investments and negotiations with fund sponsors. His clients include sponsors of private equity, real estate, venture capital and credit funds, funds of funds, SBICs, as well as institutional investors, development finance institutions and multilateral banks. Pablo devotes a significant portion of his attention to providing his clients with regulatory guidance regarding the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, the U.S. Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958.
While in law school, Pablo served as the Senior Articles Editor for the Georgetown Journal of International Law and was deeply involved in community service. He fulfilled his law school's pro bono pledge, and is the proud recipient of Georgetown Law's highest pro bono recognition level. To this day, he maintains a robust pro bono practice focused on asylum-based immigration and social entrepreneurship.
Representative experience
Advises a private investment firm on the formation of its global credit funds.
Represents a venture capital firm in connection with the formation and SBIC licensure of its private investment funds focused on U.S. technology companies.
Represents PFG Managers in connection with the formation and structuring of multiple growth lending private investment funds.
Represents a leading global development finance institution on the negotiation of and investment in private investment funds across North America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Advises an investment management firm as buyer of investment fund portfolios in multiple GP-led liquidity transactions.
Represents a global asset manager in connection with the negotiation and investment of over US$2B in U.S.-based private equity funds.
Advised the sponsors of a joint venture in the formation of a private investment fund focused on Latin America growth sector companies.
Represents a global asset manager on the formation of a private equity fund focused on renewable energy businesses in Asia.
Advises private investment funds on internal restructurings.
Represented a private real estate investment firm in connection with the structuring and formation of six Qualified Opportunity Funds.
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2018
- B.A., The University of New Mexico, summa cum laude, 2013
Bar admissions and qualifications
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Texas
Memberships
- Member, Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia
Publications
Insights and Analysis
18 August 2023
News
Press releases
21 January 2026
Press releases
18 October 2023
Events
Sponsorships and Speaking Engagements
31 May - 1 June 2023 | 7:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. (CT)