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Katie St. Peters

Kirkland & Ellis LLP, United States

Position

Katie St. Peters is a partner in the Investment Funds Group, where her practice focuses on structuring and forming investment funds ranging from first-time funds to funds of over $5 billion. She represents leading fund sponsors across a wide variety of strategies, including leveraged buyout funds, distressed funds, energy funds, debt and credit funds, hedge funds, “hybrid” funds, and other private investment vehicles. In addition to fund formation matters, Katie counsels fund sponsors on various operational and firm management issues, including governance matters, compensation and succession planning arrangements, separation arrangements, regulatory compliance, and other investment management matters. She also advises fund managers on fund-related aspects of M&A transactions, including deal-structuring, co-investment arrangements and alternative investment structures.

Education

Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D., 2010, Grace Wilson Sims Medal in Transnational Law, Executive Managing Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law; Georgetown University, B.S.F.S., International Politics, 2006 cum laude.

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