Fall 2026
5397 Private Equity Fund Formation - RALSTON- 25993
Professor(s):
Devin Ralston (ADJUNCT)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law
Time: 9:00a-12:00p F Location:
Course Outline: This course covers the major legal principles applicable to the formation of private equity funds including private securities offering rules, tax structuring and practical skills relating to investor negotiation and management. The course will focus on the definitive documents typical of a private equity fund including limited partnership agreements, private placement memorandums, subscription documents and side letters.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
Quota=8
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: No
Experiential Course Type: simulation
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
Book(s) Required
Course Materials: (1) Private Equity Fund Formation, by Jonathan Rash, available at LexisNexis (ISBN: 9798341727762) and (2) Debevoise & Plimpton’s Private Equity Funds “Cookbook”.