Jen Berrent has been battle-tested in her more than 25 years of experience in business and law. She has been at the forefront of some of the most notable transactions in terms of size, complexity and novelty. Jen has led hundreds of negotiations, including venture capital financings, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. Her practice covers the full spectrum of corporate transactions.
Previously, Jen was an executive at WeWork for six years during the scaling of the business where she served in several roles, including Chief Legal Officer and Chief Operating Officer.
Prior to joining WeWork, Jen was a partner at WilmerHale, where she was the head of the New York emerging company practice.
Richard has over 20 years of experience in private markets. He has a deep expertise in all aspects of private equity and private credit, from raising record breaking funds to facilitating complex cross-border M&A. Having been based in both London and New York, he is conversant with both the US and European markets. He is comfortable with novelty, having been involved at the vanguard of a number of innovations in the private markets.
For 15 years, Richard served as General Counsel at CVC, one of the world’s largest and most successful private equity funds, where he built and led two legal and compliance teams from scratch, to meet the separate needs of both the private equity and the private credit businesses.
Richard qualified as a solicitor in 2003, at Clifford Chance in London, where he worked as an associate in the corporate department, specializing in private equity M&A.