James O’Donnell Commentary Featured in Financial News
In the Media | March 23, 2026
Financial News
The Financial News article, “Secondaries were once an ‘ugly stepchild’. Now lawyers are swamped with job offers” (subscription required) features commentary by partner James O’Donnell about the growing demand for lawyers with secondaries market expertise.
“Everybody is looking for secondaries expertise,” James said. “It used to be that we all felt very happy being described as funds lawyers. Now people want to brand themselves as secondaries lawyers instead.”
The Financial News reports that record deal activity in the $240 billion secondaries market is fuelling a hiring frenzy, but specialists are in short supply.