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Stephanie R. Breslow

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.

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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)