Professionals
Kevin P. O'BrienManaging Director
(617) 896-0201
kobrien@colchesterpartners.com
Kevin P. O'Brien, Managing Director of Colchester Partners LLC, has 21 years experience in transactions in the investment management industry. At Colchester, Mr. O’Brien is responsible for executing all aspects of client engagements, including buy/sell assignments, assisting clients in the development and execution of ownership restructurings and management succession plans, and providing other types of strategic advice.
Prior to the formation of Colchester Partners, Mr. O'Brien was Senior Vice President of the United Asset Management division of Old Mutual plc, an international financial services firm headquartered in London, England. In that position, he was responsible for the development and execution of strategies with respect to over 30 investment management subsidiaries that were acquired by Old Mutual in connection with its acquisition of United Asset Management Corporation ("UAM") in September of 2000. During this period, he was responsible, together with Messrs. Kettle and Ramrath, for the divestiture of 12 investment management subsidiaries.
From 1996 through to the acquisition of UAM by Old Mutual, Mr. O'Brien was an officer of UAM, last serving as Senior Vice President. UAM was a NYSE company and one of the largest independent investment management organizations in the world with over $200 billion in assets under management. UAM provided diverse investment management services to institutions, mutual funds and high net worth investors through the more than 45 operating affiliates it acquired or established in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. Mr. O'Brien was a senior member of the Corporate Development Group. His responsibilities included identifying appropriate prospects, transaction negotiation and structuring (both domestic and foreign) and relationship management. Mr. O'Brien also was a leader of the team responsible for subsidiary operations and had direct responsibility for UAM's relationship with several of its subsidiaries. His activities included business and strategic planning and executing UAM's annual operating plan.
Prior to joining UAM, Mr. O'Brien was Vice President and Counsel of Copley Real Estate Advisors, Inc, (now AEW Capital Management, LP), a nationally recognized, real estate investment advisor. Its clients included public and corporate pension plans, high net worth individuals and Taft-Hartley plans. Mr. O'Brien's responsibilities included transaction negotiation and structuring, managing Copley's nationwide network of outside law firms, and coordinating many of the relationships with Copley's nationwide network of regional developers.
Prior to entering law school in 1982, Mr. O'Brien was a senior auditor in the commercial audit division of Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr. O'Brien joined that firm in 1979 and worked in their Boston office.
Mr. O'Brien received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Accounting, magna cum laude, from Boston College in 1979, and a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 1985.