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Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Offices

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
919 THIRD AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022
NEW YORK
United States
Visit website 1 212 756 2000 1 212 593 5955

Ms Phyllis Schwartz

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+1 212.756.2417 phyllis.schwartz@srz.com

Work Department

Investment Management, Private Equity, Regulatory & Compliance

Position

Phyllis A. Schwartz focuses her practice on the structuring, formation and operation of private equity funds, including buyout funds, venture capital funds, mezzanine funds, distressed funds, litigation financing funds and real estate funds. She represents both fund sponsors and investors in her practice. In addition to assisting fund sponsors with their internal management arrangements, succession planning, capital call borrowing facilities and formation of co-investment vehicles, she has extensive experience with institutional investors and regularly advises clients on market terms of investment funds. Phyllis also advises private equity funds in connection with their capital call credit lines and investments in, and dispositions of, portfolio companies.

Phyllis is listed in The Legal 500 US, The Best Lawyers in America, New York Super Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers (Investment Funds, Private Equity) and the Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law (Investment Funds). A member of New York’s Private Investment Fund Forum, Phyllis frequently shares her insights on effective fund formation strategies at industry conferences and seminars. She recently discussed compliance concerns for co-investments and issues related to fund restructuring and secondary transactions. Interviewed by Private Funds Management in the article “Ringing the Changes,” Phyllis is also the co-author of Private Equity Funds: Formation and Operation (Practising Law Institute), which is considered the leading treatise on the subject. In addition, she contributed to the Fund Formation and Incentives Report (Private Equity International in association with SRZ), as well as a chapter on “Advisers to Private Equity Funds — Practical Compliance Considerations” in Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds Regulation, Volume 2 (Practising Law Institute). Phyllis received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her A.B. from Smith College.

Memberships

Private Investment Fund Forum.

Education

Columbia Law School, JD; Smith College, AB

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)

Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP is well equipped to handle a broad range of funds in the private equity space, where they cover credit funds, special opportunity funds, real assets as well as new developments in the area such as hybrid funds focused on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Overseeing the New York based department are Stephanie Breslow, who has expertise in the formation of private equity funds and the management and structuring of investment management businesses, Peter Greene, who is well versed in compliance and regulatory requirements for asset management companies, and alternative investments lawyer David Nissenbaum. Further key names in the team are liquidity funds lawyer Heather Wyckoff, real estate funds expert Phyllis Schwartz , and Joseph Smith, who clients praise as ‘first rate’. Among the team changes in the last year were the partner promotions of Daniel Blumenthal and John Weldon in January 2023.

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