Werner van der Westhuizen
About Werner
Werner partners with the people who define private capital. He advises emerging managers as they build investment platforms, established sponsors as they scale and the institutional and strategic investors that anchor them. His legal and strategic counsel is tailored to both the transaction at hand and the client’s enduring business vision. He builds structures with his clients that align incentives and capital, traditional or bespoke. A former disputes lawyer in South Africa whose scholarship has been cited by the Constitutional Court, Werner brings an interdisciplinary, cross-border perspective to complex dealmaking.
Passions
Family (humans and dogs)
Exploration, learning and creation
Storytelling, conversation and debate
Design, music and creative production
Movement, meditation and philosophy
Admissions and credentials
- California
- New York
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