Biography
Amanda N. Persaud is a Partner in Ropes & Gray’s Asset Management
Practice. Her practice focuses on advising sponsors on the formation and
operation of private investment funds, including private equity, credit,
venture, real estate, infrastructure hybrid structures and other strategies.
Amanda regularly leads numerous global fundraises for prominent sponsors
and serves as their primary advisor on a wide range of governance,
operational and regulatory matters. She has significant experience advising
on sales, restructurings and recapitalizations of management companies and
private investment funds, as well as, succession planning, and management
company arrangements.
Amanda has been listed as a leading private funds lawyer in Chambers USA;
The Legal 500 USA; Law Business Research’s International Who’s Who of
Private Funds Lawyers and Who’s Who of Business Lawyers; and Legal Media
Group’s Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking Finance and
Transactional Lawyers and Expert Guide to Women in Business.
Amanda speaks extensively on a range of topics affecting private investment
funds at conferences sponsored by the International Bar Association,
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Practising Law Institute and
other industry forums.
Her many publications include: Private Equity’s Pixie Dust: Carried Interest
Arrangements Sixteenth Annual Private Equity Forum, Practising Law
Institute; “Private Equity: Longer Term Investment Structures” 18th Annual
Private Equity Forum, Practising Law Institute; Private Equity Funds: Legal
Analysis of Structural, ERISA, Securities and Other Regulatory Issues in
Investment Adviser Regulation; Financial Product Fundamentals, Second
Edition, Practising Law Institute