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Michelle E.P. Nunez

Partner

Michelle E.P. Nunez

Partner

Michelle E.P. Nu帽ez counsels private funds, investment advisers, and institutional investors on U.S. legal and regulatory matters. She is a partner in the firm鈥檚 Fund Formation & Investment Management Practice.

Michelle advises clients on a variety of matters relating to private fund formation and private fund investments, including structuring and forming unregistered funds, regulatory and compliance of existing funds, fund governance, investment adviser compliance, and evaluation of potential private fund investments. She advises fund sponsors and fund investors across a broad spectrum of size, maturity, and asset class, including closed-end, open-end, and hybrid funds. In addition, Michelle advises impact investment-focused advisers on the legal and regulatory issues surrounding launching private funds that focus on achieving social benefit as well as financial returns, with a particular interest in funds designed to provide capital to enterprises founded by historically underfunded groups and/or located in low-income communities.

Michelle also has extensive experience in the application of U.S. laws to non-U.S. investment advisers and their clients, having spent two years in London counseling European and Middle Eastern investment managers on the application of U.S. securities laws to the distribution of fund interests to U.S. investors and investments in U.S.-listed equities.

In addition, Michelle is a member of the firm鈥檚 Recruiting Committee.

Presentations and Publications

  • Author, 鈥淭he Bespoke Solution 鈥 Advantages and Challenges in Tailoring Single Investor Funds,鈥澛Bloomberg BNA Pension & Benefits Daily聽(August 28, 2015)
  • Author, 鈥淧rivate Equity Portfolio Company Political Activity鈥澛The Journal of Private Equity, 19(3), 51-54 (January 29, 2020)
October 13, 2023 Deals and Wins

麻豆直播 Advises Avante Capital Partners in Strategic Partnership with Pacific Current Group

麻豆直播 & Lardner LLP represented Avante Capital Partners, a woman- and minority-owned private credit firm focusing on investments in the lower middle market, in entering a strategic partnership with Pacific Current Group Limited.
June 1, 2022 Blogs

Why Mentoring Matters

In this 鈥淲hy Mentoring Matters鈥 series, 麻豆直播 & Lardner LLP partner Michelle Nu帽ez discusses the best way to go about mentoring others, based on her own experiences of being mentored as a young attorney with no law background.
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November 17, 2021 麻豆直播 Funds Legal Focus

Private Equity and Hedge Funds Should Expect More SEC Scrutiny Ahead

SEC Chair Gary Gensler gave the keynote speech for the 2021 Institutional Limited Partners Association鈥檚 virtual summit. Gensler focused his remarks exclusively on private funds and detailed his view that private equity and hedge funds need more scrutiny and regulation.
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August 11, 2020 麻豆直播 Viewpoints

Credit Funds, Done Right, Can Be an Opportunity for Banks

Recent changes to the Volcker Rule, which become effective October 1, 2020, will permit banks and their affiliates (for convenience, 鈥渂anks鈥) to sponsor credit funds, whose primary assets are loans and other debt instruments which the bank could hold directly. The recent changes (the 鈥淔inal Rule鈥) exempt credit funds from the Volcker Rule鈥檚 prohibition on sponsoring a covered fund.
May 4, 2020 Press Releases

麻豆直播 Represents Ara Partners in $400 Million Capitalization

麻豆直播 & Lardner represented Ara Partners, a private equity firm specializing in industrial decarbonization investments, in a $400 million capitalization for its debut fund, Ara Fund I, LP.
February 1, 2020 Press Releases

麻豆直播 Announces Election of 18 New Partners

麻豆直播 & Lardner LLP is pleased to announce that 18 lawyers have been elected to the firm鈥檚 partnership, effective February 1, 2020.