Biography
Larissa Marcellino is a partner in the Asset Management Department and Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, and a member in the Firm's Private Equity Practice Group. Ms. Marcellino routinely advises stakeholders in the private equity industry on a broad range of strategic transactions and initiatives, including cross-fund and GP-led transactions, liquidity solutions, and spin-out transactions. Ms. Marcellino also advises emerging managers and family offices in the establishment of their firms and investment funds.
In addition to Ms. Marcellino's strategic private equity sponsor practice, Ms. Marcellino represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies in public and private merger and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic equity investments and spin-outs across multiple industries and geographies.
Prior to joining Willkie in 2022, Ms. Marcellino previously served as General Counsel of Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York and London-based private investment firm. During her tenure there, Ms. Marcellino advised Aquiline on fund formation, fund counseling, regulatory, co-investment and M&A matters across Aquiline's private equity, venture and credit strategies. Prior to joining Aquiline in 2018, Ms. Marcellino focused on private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions at another large international law firm.