Profile: Phyllis A Schwartz

Private funds

Biography: Private funds

Phyllis A Schwartz is a corporate partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP in New York in the investment management group. Ms Schwartz concentrates on the structuring, formation and operation of private-equity funds including venture-capital funds, mezzanine funds, distressed funds, real-estate funds and small business investment companies. In her practice she represents both fund sponsors and investors. She assists fund sponsors with their internal management arrangements and creation of internal investment vehicles, has extensive experience with institutional investors and regularly advises clients with respect to acquisitions and dispositions of existing partnership interests and market terms of investment funds. Ms Schwartz also represents private-equity funds in connection with their investments in and dispositions of portfolio companies.

Ms Schwartz is a member of New York's Private Investment Fund Forum and the Committee of Private Investment Funds of the New York City Bar Association. She is a frequent speaker about topics relevant to private-equity funds, including the fund formation process, the use of placement agents and anticipated changes to the private-equity fund industry.

Ms Schwartz is a 1979 graduate of Smith College and a 1983 graduate of the Columbia University School of Law.

Schulte Roth & Zabel is a 450-lawyer firm with offices in New York and London. Its fund practice is comprised of 13 partners and more than 75 associates exclusively dedicated to the representation of fund sponsors and investors.