{"id":164895,"date":"2026-10-13T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/13\/reed-smith-names-chris-sheaffer-global-chair-of-private-equity-group\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:14:00","slug":"reed-smith-names-chris-sheaffer-global-chair-of-private-equity-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/13\/reed-smith-names-chris-sheaffer-global-chair-of-private-equity-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Reed Smith Names Chris Sheaffer Global Chair of Private Equity Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-202640\" src=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Sheaffer-Christopher-M1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"sheaffer-chris\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" title=\"\">NEW YORK, NY\u2014Reed Smith today announced that Christopher M. Sheaffer has been named global chair of its Private Equity Group, as the firm continues significant investment in its global private equity and broader private capital capabilities. Sheaffer, a partner in New York who previously served as global vice chair of the Private Equity Group, succeeds Mark Pedretti and Brad Schmarak. Pedretti and Schmarak will continue their transactional practices, with Schmarak also continuing as the group\u2019s global vice chair.<\/p>\n<p>Reed Smith advises private equity sponsors, institutional investors, family offices, portfolio companies and other market participants across the private capital ecosystem. The breadth of the firm\u2019s global platform enables clients to draw on integrated transactional, financing, funds, regulatory and sector capabilities as they raise and deploy capital, execute transactions and manage investments across markets.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/talk-of-the-town\/reed-smith-names-chris-sheaffer-global-chair-of-private-equity-group\" target=\"_blank\">Reed Smith Names Chris Sheaffer Global Chair of Private Equity Group<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney at Law Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognizing you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/attorneyatlawmagazine.com\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, NY\u2014Reed Smith today announced that Christopher M. Sheaffer has been named global chair of its Private Equity Group, as the firm continues significant investment in its global private equity and broader private capital capabilities. Sheaffer, a partner in New York who previously served as global vice chair of the Private Equity Group, succeeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal_matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}