Overview
Co-Head of Credit Funds. 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.
Stephanie serves as a past chair of the Private Investment Funds Subcommittee of the International Bar Association, 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).
Recognitions
Listed as a leading private funds lawyer in many publications, including:
- Financier Worldwide Magazine – 2025 Investment Funds Power Player
- Chambers Global
- Chambers USA – Band 1
- IFLR1000 Women Leaders
- The Legal 500 US – Hall of Fame
- Crain’s Notable Women in Law
- The Best Lawyers in America
- Attorney Intel – The Top 25 Blockchain and Digital Assets Attorneys of 2025
- Expert Guide to the Best of the Best USA – Investment Funds
- Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers – Investment Funds, Private Equity
- Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law – Investment Funds
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America
- Lexology Index Thought Leaders: USA 2025 – Private Funds Formation
- New York Super Lawyers – Top Women Attorneys in the New York Metro Area
- PLC Cross-Border Investment Funds Handbook
- Who’s Who Legal Awards – Private Funds Lawyer of the Year, 2020
- Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers – ranked as one of the world’s “Most Highly Regarded Individuals”; ranked at the top of the world’s 2014 “Most Highly Regarded Individuals” list
- Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers – ranked as one of the world’s “Top Ten Private Equity Lawyers”
- Who’s Who Legal Awards 2014 – “Private Funds Lawyer of the Year”
- New York State Bar Association Empire State Counsel Honoree
- The Hedge Fund Journal – named one of the 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds
- Euromoney Legal Media Group’s inaugural Americas Women in Business Law Awards – named “Best in Investment Funds”
- Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2019 – named “Outstanding Practitioner”
- Girl Scouts of Greater New York – named one of the 2012 Women of Distinction
Community
- Chair, Private Investment Funds Subcommittee, 2014-2016; Vice-Chair, 2012-2014; Secretary, 2009-2012 – IBA Investment Funds Committee, International Bar Association
- Founding Member and Steering Committee, Wall Street Hedge Fund Forum
- Founding Member and Past Chair, Private Investment Fund Forum
- Committee of Hearts, Hedge Funds Care, 2003-2004
- Member, Board of Directors, 100 Women in Finance, 2014-2016
- Advisory Board, Former Third Way Capital Markets Initiative
- Board of Trustees, The Joyce Theater, New York
- Board of Visitors, Columbia Law School
- Corporation Law Committee, 1993-1996; Chair, Subcommittee on Business Trusts, 1995-1996; Committee on the Revised Uniform Partnership Act, 1993-1996 – New York City Bar Association
- Board of Directors, Girl Scouts of Greater New York
Credentials
Education
Columbia Law School, JD, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Harvard University, BA, cum laude
Admissions
New York
Registered Foreign Lawyer (England & Wales)