Nick Lawler is a Managing Director and the Head of Secondaries at Churchill Asset Management. He is responsible for capital raising, sourcing and underwriting investments, as well as portfolio management activities for the firm’s secondaries strategy. Nick also serves a member of Churchill’s Investment Council.
Since joining Churchill, Nick has scaled the secondaries platform to nearly $2 billion in committed capital and has deployed over $1.3 billion across its dedicated secondaries vehicles in GP-led and LP-led transactions, contributing to the firm's ranking as the #3 most active lender in US secondary buyouts in 2025, per PitchBook data.
Prior to joining Churchill in 2022, he was a Senior Vice President and spent 10 years at 50 South Capital Advisors, LLC, the alternative investment arm of Northern Trust Corporation, where he helped build and lead the firm’s secondaries business. Nick also served on 50 South Capital’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Before joining 50 South Capital, he was a member of Northern Trust’s Global Opportunities in Leadership Development (“GOLD”) program on the Investments Track – Northern’s functional and management training program. Nick joined Northern Trust in 2008 and began his career in Wealth Management.
He graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in Political Science and minor in History and was a member of the men’s varsity golf team, competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference. In 2020, Nick was named to Secondaries Investor’s NextGen List, and in 2024, received M&A Advisor’s Emerging Leaders award. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of the GVC Scholarship Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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