Speakers

Michael S. Hong is a partner in Davis Polk’s investment management group where he advises fund-related clients on all manner of fund formation and investor relations, M&A (with deep experience in co-investment) and regulatory matters. His clients include private equity, credit, growth capital, hedge, energy, real estate, co-investment and fund of funds managers.
 
Michael also advises on secondary transactions, GP-stake and seed sales and purchases, spin-outs and JVs. He also regularly represents sponsors and senior executives of sponsors in “upper tier” arrangement, employment and separation matters.
 
His clients include Antares Capital, Harvest Partners, Golub Capital, TPG Credit, Lightyear Capital, Trilantic Capital, Frazier Healthcare, Ferghana Investment Partners, Niobrara Capital, GHK Capital, Godspeed Capital, Durational Capital, and TruArc Partners (successor to Snow Phipps).
 
Michael is recognized among leading fund formation lawyers by Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Legal 500 US and IFLR1000, and private funds “Thought Leaders” by Lexology Index. In 2015, Private Funds Management named Michael among the “30 Most Influential Private Equity Lawyers Under the Age of 40”.
 
Michael received his J.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law where he earned the Gerald W. Schwartz Gold Medal. He received his M.B.A from the University of Toronto, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. He received his BCom from the University of Toronto with high distinctio