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Sarah Davidoff

Sarah Davidoff

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Ropes & Gray LLP

Ropes & Gray LLP

United States • Investment fund formation and management

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Alternative/hedge funds

Renowned for its cross-border capabilities, the team Ropes & Gray LLP provide clients with full-service capabilities with regard to fund formation, operational and regulatory matters. With recent developments within the tech sector, the team has adapted its practice to include advice on matters related to cryptocurrency, insider trading issues around alternative data sources, and novel operational issues. The team is co-led by San Francisco and Silicone Valley based Melissa Bender and New York’s Marc Biamonte. Bender’s practice concerns private credit and debt, with particular experience in raising closed-end, open-end, hybrid and evergreen funds while Biamonte assists general partners with fundraising across a diverse range of fund types, including buyout, venture, hedge, and special focus funds. Leigh Fraser , sitting across Boston and New York, has extensive experience assisting with the formation of onshore and offshore open-end and closed-end private funds advises such entities on an ongoing basis with regulatory matters and the structuring of new investment products. Based in New York, Laurel FitzPatrick advises on credit fund formations across an impressive range of fund types including evergreen, treaty and rated notes structures, as well as traditional closed end credit funds while Sarah Davidoff , who is also based in New York, is well regarded with the alternative asset management space, guiding clients on aspects of raising and operating their buyout, credit, growth equity and venture capital funds. Laura Hirst is also a key contact in Boston, offering guidance across a variety of private investment funds and investment strategies.
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Phone
1-212-596-9017
Email
[email protected]
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ropesgray.com

Profile

Work Department
Asset Management
Position

Partner

Career

With a career spanning more than two decades, Sarah Davidoff is a partner in the asset management group and a co-head of Ropes & Gray’s Client Program. The world’s largest and most prominent US and non-US alternative asset managers turn to Sarah for guidance on issues relating to the formation, fundraising and operation of their private equity funds, growth funds, hybrid funds, credit funds and hedge funds. In Chambers USA, Sarah’s clients have commended her as being “uniquely talented,” praising her ability “to take the legal theory and really put it into practice” and to be “a strategic advisor” that is “incredibly proactive” and able to “mobilize all the capabilities of Ropes & Gray.” As such, Sarah’s clients “very much view her as a critical partner,” recognize that Sarah “universally has the highest regard or her peers” and notice that, “of her competitors, she [is] their top referral.”

Sarah has particular expertise with spinouts, reorganizations, asset management M&A transactions, seed arrangements, high net worth access products, structuring internal compensation programs, designing bespoke and hybrid investment vehicles and launching innovative fund products. Sarah’s esteemed client roster and proven track record of making an impact on fund managers, and, more recently her cutting-edge work in advising on cryptocurrencies, demonstrates she is among the top women in the industry. Sarah regularly advises clients at the forefront of the constantly evolving regulatory and compliance landscape, is a frequent speaker at conferences, forums and other seminars in the private funds industry, and has contributed to a number of well-known legal publications.

Education
  • JD, New York University School of Law, 1996
  • AB, with High Distinction, University of Michigan, 1993

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