Partner
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Co-Head of the Investment Management Group, Co-Head of the Blockchain Technology & Digital Assets Group, Member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. Maintains a diverse practice that includes liquid funds, private equity funds and the structuring of investment management businesses and focuses on the formation of private equity funds (including LBO, mezzanine, distressed, real estate and venture) and liquid-securities funds (including hedge funds, hybrid funds, credit funds and activist funds) as well as providing regulatory advice to investment managers.
Stephanie also represents fund sponsors and institutional investors in connection with seed-capital investments in fund managers and acquisitions of interests in investment management businesses and funds of funds and other institutional investors in connection with their investment activities, including blockchain technology and virtual currency offerings and transactions.
Recently serving as chair of the Private Investment Funds Subcommittee of the International Bar Association, Stephanie is a founding member and former chair of the Private Investment Fund Forum, a former member of the Advisory Board of former Third Way Capital Markets Initiative, a former member of the Board of Directors and current member of 100 Women in Finance, a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School and a member of the Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of Greater New York.
Stephanie has received the highest industry honors, including:
• Named to the inaugural Legal 500 US Hall of Fame in the “Investment Fund Formation and Management: Alternative/Hedge Funds” category.
• Listed in Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Crain’sNotable Women in Law, IFLR1000 Women Leaders, Best Lawyers in America,• Recognized by Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, which ranked her one of the world’s “Top Ten Private Equity Lawyers”), Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers (which ranked her at the top of the world’s “Most Highly Regarded Individuals” list),Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders: Global Elite, Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders: Private Funds, Expert Guide to the Best of the Best USA, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law and PLC Cross-border Private Equity Handbook, among other leading directories.
• Selected as one of “50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds” by The Hedge Fund Journal.
• Law360’s “Asset Management Practice Group of the Year” for her representation of leading private investment funds.
At the 2020 Americas Women in Business Law Awards, she was named:
• “Private Funds Lawyer of the Year” by Who’s Who Legal
• “Best in Investment Funds” and “Outstanding Practitioner” by Euromoney Legal Media Group
She was also named one of the 2012 Women of Distinction by the Girl Scouts of Greater New York.
Stephanie is a much sought-after speaker on fund formation and operation and compliance issues, and regularly publishes articles on the latest trends in these areas.
Stephanie is a frequent contributor to major publications and has:
• Co-authored Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation (Practising Law Institute) and Hedge
Funds: Formation, Operation and Regulation (Full Court Press).
• Contributed a chapter on “Hedge Fund Investment in Private Equity” for inclusion in PLC Cross- border Private Equity Handbook 2005/06(Practical Law Company) and a chapter on “Advisers to Private Equity Funds — Practical Compliance Considerations” for Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds Regulation, Volume 2 (Practising Law Institute).
• Written New York and Delaware Business Entities: Choice, Formation, Operation, Financing and
Acquisitions(West) and New York Limited Liability Companies: A Guide to Law and
Practice (West).