Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Corporate, asset management, private acquisitions and private equity

Ms. Zelenka is a corporate partner, resident in the Firm’s Washington, DC office. Her practice focuses on asset management work, concentrating on the structuring and offering of private equity funds and other alternative investment structures. She advises on all aspects of fund formation and ongoing operations of funds and their managers.

Ms. Zelenka's broad range of fund experience includes private equity/buyout, credit (including direct lending, mezzanine and others), real estate, special situations, infrastructure, regional-focused,‎ life sciences, funds-of-funds (primary, secondary, and industry-focused), employee and others. In addition, she advises clients on fund and manager-related matters such as employee incentive arrangements, stake investments; spin-out transactions; fund restructurings and reorganizations; GP-led secondaries; placement agent arrangements; and regulatory matters.

She joined the firm in 2004.

Ms. Zelenka is a board member for Girls on the Run DC and a member of the Leadership Advisory Council of the National Women's Law Center. She has served on Fried Frank's Nominating Committee, New Partner Committee, Special Counsel Committee and Women's Forum Planning Committee.

Additionally, Ms. Zelenka is often asked to speak on asset management industry topics and is a repeat panelist on PLI's annual “Advanced Issues in Private Funds” program.  

Ms. Zelenka received her JD in 2004 from the University of Chicago Law School, and a BS in economics and a BS in environmental engineering in 2001 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.