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Ms Susan Burkhardt

+1 212 878 3279 Susan.Burkhardt@cliffordchance.com

Position

Susan Burkhardt is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Funds and Investment Management group, based in New York. Susan Burkhardt’s practice focuses on the formation of, and ongoing advice to, various types of private investment funds, accounts and structures across strategies, with a primary focus on credit and private equity.

Over the course of her career Susan has advised on the legal and commercial aspects of new fund product launches, including funds-of-one, separately managed accounts, flagship and overflow accounts, and customized and strategic multi-strategy arrangements, including developing of terms, addressing marketability considerations, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and managing structuring issues, product documentation, and negotiations with leading institutional investors across the globe.

Education

Georgetown University (SFS) 2008
University of Sussex (LLB) 2009
University of Law (LPC) 2010
Joined Clifford Chance 2011
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 2013
Licensed as a Legal Consultant in New York 2019
Partner since 2021
Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2022