
Nathaniel Marrs
PartnerCo-Head, Investment Funds Practice
He is a terrific lawyer who is very practical and thorough in his approach to deal structuring and problem solving.
— Chambers Global 2023About
Nathaniel Marrs is a Partner in the Chicago office of DLA Piper and Co-Head of the Firm's Investment Funds Practice.
His practice is focused on the structuring and formation of private funds and their management companies, with a particular focus on real estate, infrastructure and energy firms. He also represents such firms in a variety of corporate transactions, including roll-ups, joint ventures, co-investments, the formation of portfolio and other operating companies, and investment management M&A transactions.
EXPERIENCE
Education
- M.B.A., The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2004
Dean's List Multiple Quarters - J.D., University of Michigan 1996
- B.A., University of Michigan 1993
summa cum laude,
Phi Beta Kappa,
Five-time Angell Scholar
Awards
- Chambers Global
- Band 5, USA Private Equity: Fund Formation (2022 - 2023)
- Chambers USA
- Band 5, USA Private Equity: Fund Formation (2021 - 2022)
- The Legal 500 United States
- Recommended, Private Equity Funds (including Venture Capital) (2020 - 2022)
- Selected as a Leading Lawyer in Illinois for Real Estate Law: Commercial and Real Estate Law: Finance by Leading Lawyers Network
Bylines
- Authored a variety of articles for different publications addressing real estate-related topics, including PREA, the Real Estate Finance Journal and Financial Times
Seminars
- Speaker, "Tax implications of private equity waterfall and carried interest provisions," DLA Piper, 4 December 2019
- Speaker, Joint Ventures: Waterfall Structures, Carried Interest, IRR Lookback, Clawback and Catchup, 14 November 2019
- Active speaker on investment fund topics, including at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Northwestern Law School and Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
Memberships And Affiliations
Advisory Board Member of The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Real Estate Alumni Group and a member of PREA
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Phone
+1 312 368 2169
(Work, Chicago)