Thiha Tun

Thiha Tun is a partner in the Private Investment Funds practice at Goodwin. Thiha joined Goodwin in 2024. Thiha advises alternative asset fund sponsors, institutional investors and financial advisors on a broad range of issues, including fund formation and capital raisings, fund investments, GP and LP-led private equity and private debt secondary transactions, establishment of managed accounts, carried interest schemes and co-investment arrangements as well as fund reorganizations and reconstructions.

Thiha has represented fund managers, as well as major investors on the organization of funds, club deals and customized investment solutions investing in private equity, private credit, secondaries, real estate, infrastructure, renewable energy, cleantech and risk transfer asset classes. He is regularly involved in financial services M&A, including asset manager acquisitions and joint ventures as well as portfolio company investments and financings.

Thiha is listed for private funds by The Legal 500 UK. In previous editions, clients state: “his commercial acumen and structuring expertise is second to none” and that he has “impeccable service, impeccable attitude and outstanding expertise in his field”.

• Columna Capital as the GP/Sponsor, on a number of GP-led secondary transactions*
• Apollo as secondary buyer, on the acquisitions of portfolios of credit investments as part of two GP-led secondary transactions*
• Middleground Capital Partners as the GP/Sponsor of a single asset GP-led secondary transaction*
• Graham Partners as the GP/Sponsor of a single asset GP-led secondary transaction*
• The Seventh Swedish National Pension Fund as anchor investor and seed asset provider on the launch of HarbourVest Global Private Solution SA*
• A confidential client as the GP/Sponsor of a multi asset GP-led secondary transaction*
• A confidential client on the formation of a segregated managed account co-investing in credit secondaries investments*
• A confidential client on the formation of several funds investing in insurance linked securities and other risk transfer instruments*
• UFG Asset Management as secondary buyer, on the acquisition of a Russia/CIS infrastructure fund complex as part of a GP-led secondary transaction*
• Neve Capital on the formation of a liquid and illiquid credit investment platform*
• Orchard Global Asset Management on the formation of Taiga Special Opportunities Fund*
• Sustainable Growth Management on the formation of Sustainable Growth Fund I and Sustainable Growth Fund II*
• Warburg-Serres on the formation of Animal Ventures Tomorrow Fund*
• Confidential clients on the formation of co-investment funds to make investments in buy-outs of an e-commerce business and an educational services business*
• A confidential client on the formation of a shipping fund*
• A confidential client as secondary buyer, on various private equity structured secondaries transactions*
• Various confidential clients on the establishment of various managed accounts, funds-of-one, club deals and bespoke investment platforms*

* Designates experience gained prior to joining Goodwin.

Member, Law Society of England & Wales

The Legal 500 UK has ranked Thiha for his work in Investment Fund Formation and Management – Private Funds.

Thiha was named a finalist for “Private Equity Deal of the Year” by International Financial Law Review’s IFLR Europe 2024 Awards.

Thiha has been shortlisted for the FT Innovative Lawyers Europe 2024 award in the category of “Innovative lawyers in private capital”.

Thiha was commended in the “Innovation in Impact and ESG” category by the Financial Times in 2023.

Thiha was awarded a Samuel E. Klein Pro Bono Award in 2023 for demonstrating an exceptional commitment to providing pro bono legal services.

Thiha was rated as Highly Regarded in IFLR1000 in 2020-2021.

Thiha was named a Leading Lawyer for his work in Private Funds – Formation by Who’s Who Legal in 2020.

• Contributor, “How Evergreen Funds are Taking Root in the Secondaries Market,” Pitchbook, 2024
• Contributor, “Alternative Investment Funds,” The Legal 500, 2023
• Co-Author, “A Guide to Private Equity in the United Kingdom,” Getting The Deal Through, 2023
• Contributor, “International Comparative Legal Guide – Private Equity,” ICLG, 2023 – 2024
• Co-Author, “FAQs Regarding the Failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank,” Lexology, March 12, 2023
• Contributor, International Comparative Legal Guide – Alternative Investment Funds 2022, September 07, 2022
• Contributor, “Alternative Investment Funds,” The Legal 500, September 01, 2022
• Contributor, “Alternative Investment Funds,” The Legal 500, September 01, 2021
• Co-Author, “A New European Financial Services Landscape for a New Year?” Dechert Insight, January 07, 2021
• Co-Author, “Managing sanctions exposure from Multilateral Development Banks: the growing risks for private equity sponsors and asset managers” Dechert Insights, December 07, 2020
• Co-Author, “Updated ILPA Model LPAs Continue to Miss the Mark(et),” Dechert Insight, September 18, 2020
• Contributor, UK Life Sciences and Healthcare Newsletter, September 14, 2020
• Co-Author, “COVID-19 Coronavirus: Facing a Global Challenge: Key Considerations for Fund Managers,” Dechert Insight, March 26, 2020
• Co-Author, COVID-19 Coronavirus: Financial Services Hub, Dechert, March 25, 2020
• Co-Author, “COVID-19 Coronavirus Market Disruption: Fund Restructuring Considerations for Private Equity,” Dechert Insight, March 19, 2020
• Co-Author, “Private Funds Nuts & Bolts: Secondary Transaction Basics and Recent Market Trends,” Dechert Insight, March 11, 2020
• Co-Author, “Cayman Islands added to the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions: practical impact for Cayman Islands funds and their managers,” Dechert Insight, February 19, 2020
• Co-Author, “GP-Led Secondary Transactions: Mitigating Risk of Regulatory Scrutiny of an Ever-More Complex Asset Class,” Dechert Insight, October 21, 2019

• Speaker, “Private credit secondaries: how far will this market go?” SuperReturn Private Credit Europe, 2024
• Speaker, “Private Funds Roundtable - Asset Manager M&A,” Dechert, London, May 2024
• Speaker, 2022 Global Alternative Funds Symposium, November 15, 2022
• Speaker, “Private Equity Secondary Transactions – Continuation Funds,” Committed Capital February 28, 2022
• Speaker, “Committed Capital | Private Equity Secondary Transactions – Continuation Funds,” Dechert Podcast, February 2022
• Speaker, “Part Two: Retailisation of Alternative Asset Classes”, Dechert Luxembourg Investment Funds Webinar Series, December 07, 2021
• Speaker, Dechert Healthcare Deals Conference 2021, September 23, 2021
• Speaker, “Hot Topics for Fund Managers,” Dechert On Demand, February 23, 2021
• Speaker, “Retailisation of Alternative Asset Classes,” Dechert Luxembourg Investment Funds Webinar Series, December 2021
• Speaker, 12th Annual Healthcare Investor Conference, October 08, 2020
• Speaker, “Fund Structures for Opportunistic Investing,” COVID-19 Coronavirus Business Impact Broadcast Series, May 29, 2020
• Speaker, “Secondary Transaction Basics and Recent Market Trends,” Dechert LLP Webinar, March 11, 2020
• Speaker, “Market Outlook for 2020: Private Equity, Real Assets, Secondaries and Credit,” 9th Annual Funds Congress, London, February 2020
• Speaker, “Fundraising Masterclass: Raising Money From Asian Investors,” Dechert Webinar, May 23, 2019