Honors + Affiliations
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2004–2008)
Listed, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers (2007–2008)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2005–2009)
Listed, "Guide to the World's Leading Investment Funds Lawyers," International Financial Law Review/Expert Guides (2008)
Listed, New York Super Lawyer
Former President, American College of Investment Counsel
Board of Governors, The Association of Life Insurance Counsel
Member, Private Investment Funds Forum
Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on Private Investment Funds
Member, National Association of Public Pension Attorneys
Editorial Board Member, Stanford Law Review
Recipient, Cambridge College Prize for Academic Excellence
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New York
- 101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.6603
Fax: 212.309.6001
Louis H. Singer is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice and head of the firm's Private Investment Funds Practice. Mr. Singer's clients include life insurance companies, public and private pension funds, private investment funds, investment managers, universities and family offices. He is a member of the firm's Advisory Board.
Mr. Singer represents private equity funds in both fund formation and investment and domestic and international investors in virtually every type of private investment fund, including buyout, venture capital, real estate opportunity, corporate governance, hedge, distressed assets and mezzanine funds. He has an extensive background in the formation of funds-of-funds and co-investment funds and in their investment activities.
Mr. Singer's practice also focuses on the representation of life insurance companies and other investors in direct debt and equity investments, including the purchase of senior and subordinated notes, mezzanine investments, buyouts, venture capital investments and structured financings. He has represented life insurance companies and other financial institutions for over 25 years.
Mr. Singer served as a trustee of the American College of Investment Counsel for nine years and as president of that organization. He is a member of the board of governors of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel. He was elected to membership in the Private Investment Funds Forum and serves on the Committee on Private Investment Funds of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Mr. Singer's recent speaking engagements have included presentations to the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys, the International Bar Association, SuperReturn USA, the Institute for Private Investors, the American College of Investment Counsel and the Association of Life Insurance Counsel. Mr. Singer is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business.
In 2006, Mr. Singer was named by Private Equity International as one of the 30 most influential private equity lawyers in the world.
Mr. Singer is admitted to practice in New York.
Education
- Stanford University Law School, 1977, J.D.
- Cambridge University, 1975, LL.B., First Class
- University of Pennsylvania, 1973, B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa