Paul Hastings LLP has appointed Brian C. Miner as a private equity partner in its New York office, the latest in a series of senior hires designed to consolidate the firm’s position at the upper end of the global M&A and investment funds market.
Mr. Miner joins from Dechert LLP, where he built a practice advising private equity sponsors on domestic and cross-border transactions spanning asset management, insurance, life sciences and energy.
His work centres on the structuring, negotiation and execution of GP stakes transactions and other minority and control investments in alternative asset managers — a corner of the market that has grown as institutional capital seeks exposure to fund manager economics. His client roster has included Lovell Minnick, Industry Ventures and Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Representative work includes advising Industry Ventures on a GP stake investment from Petershill and its subsequent sale to Goldman Sachs for up to $965 million, and advising HPS Investment Partners on its minority stake investment from Blue Owl Capital.
The appointment marks the eighth private equity partner to join Paul Hastings in New York, Boston and London in the past eight months, with recent additions including Amanda Persaud in investment funds, Ferish Patel and a four-partner real estate and private equity team in London, Anthony Cahill in New York, Jim Curley in Boston, and Christopher Zochowski and Bradley Noojin in Washington, D.C.
Firm Chair Frank Lopez described the hire as synergistic with the firm’s existing capabilities in investment management and insurance — sectors that increasingly intersect with the GP stakes and secondaries market Miner specialises in.
GP stakes transactions, in which capital providers acquire minority interests in fund management businesses, have attracted dedicated vehicles from institutions including Blue Owl Capital, Petershill and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and require advisers who can combine M&A execution with funds structuring and financial regulatory analysis.
The firm reports that its Chambers-ranked private equity practice rose 25 places year on year in Bloomberg’s Q1 2026 league tables for US private equity by volume and ranked in the top 15 by deal count in The Deal’s 2025 announced PE transaction rankings.
Law firms and legal practitioners tracking the private equity talent market will note that the sustained lateral movement at Paul Hastings reflects broader competition among Am Law 100 firms for specialist talent with cross-border credentials.
In-house teams at asset managers and insurers, precisely the client categories Miner has served — should expect intensifying competition for their mandates, with GP stakes and asset manager consolidation likely to remain a high-value transactional category into the second half of 2026.