Alexandra is a partner in Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Corporate Department. She has over 25 years of experience in investment management practice, representing investment advisers and institutional investors.
Alexandra counsels private equity and hedge fund advisers in all stages of their business, including fund formation, domestic and cross-border structuring, adviser registration, compliance program development, compliance training and advice, governance and fiduciary issues, closed-end fund registration and compliance, placement arrangements, marketing, client relations, side letter and seeding arrangements, implementation of liquidity strategies, and day-to-day trading and operations advice. She also advises clients acquiring investments in non-traditional assets, and in sponsoring or participating in managed account programs or other bespoke investment service platforms. Further, she has represented financial industry clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, strategic joint ventures, regulatory examinations, implementation of prosecutorial settlement agreements, governance matters and due diligence.
Alexandra also has considerable in-house experience in general counsel and chief legal officer roles, advising boards and C-suite officers on matters of consequence, including responses to government examinations and investigations, investor litigation, and fiduciary and auditor independence issues. She is a co-Founder and Chair Emeritus of High Water Women Foundation and chaired the HWW Symposium: Investing for Impact, in 2013 and 2014.
Highlighted Matters
Private Equity/Credit Funds:
Frontier Resource Group – FRG Partners I
Astra Natural Resources Fund
Technology Futures Fund
Atocha Discovery Fund
Minerva Mexico Debt Fund
RD Legal Special Opportunities Fund
Hedge Funds:
Tamalpais Global Partners Funds
Quorum Fund Ltd.
Queen Anne’s Gate Four Rivers Funds
Rockmore Investment Funds
Niña Fund LP
Schroder Credit Renaissance Fund LP
Breeden European Partners (California) LP
Touradji Capital Management
Blue Ridge Capital
Funds of Funds/BDCs:
Meadowvale Public Markets Funds
Excelsior Absolute Return and Directional Funds
Excelsior Venture Funds
Pru Alpha Funds
Bespoke Products:
Establishment of PIV structures for private equity shipping investments
Establishment of hedge fund managed accounts platform
Establishment of customized investment and strategic marketing ventures
RD Legal Capital Funds and SPVs for litigation judgment investments
Oak Run Capital Funds for trade receivables investments
Asset Manager Acquisitions:
Sale of managed accounts business from Prudential to Wachovia
Sale of Guidance managed futures funds to William Blair
Integration of broker managed programs following Citi/Legg Mason transaction
New Media and Investment Ventures
Institutional Investors
CalSTRS
Washington State Investment Board
Alaska Permanent Fund
SBCERs
LA CERA
MassPRIM
Professional Activities
Diversity Journal, Women Worth Watching 2017
New York Business Journal, Women of Influence, Class of 2016
High Water Women Foundation- President and Founding Director. Board Chair (2008-2011). Creator of the MicroFinance Initiative, the Leadership Council for and the Young Women’s Council. The Foundation received the National Council on Economic Education's 2006 Visionary Award and the (Em)Power Award from The Young Women's Leadership Network. It was also nominated for Philanthropy of the Year by Private Asset Management magazine
Private Funds Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2008-2011) (2015-2018)
Investment Adviser Regulation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (2005-2008)
100 Women in Hedge Funds-Angel Donor. Philanthropy and Gala Committees (2003-2004), Legal Peer Advisory Group (2005-2007)