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Ms Susan Burkhardt

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Work Department

Funds & Investment Management

Position

Susan Burkhardt is a partner in Clifford Chance’s Funds and Investment Management group, based in New York. Susan Burkhardt’s practice focuses on the formation of, and ongoing advice to, various types of private investment funds, accounts and structures across strategies, with a primary focus on credit and private equity.

Over the course of her career Susan has advised on the legal and commercial aspects of new fund product launches, including funds-of-one, separately managed accounts, flagship and overflow accounts, and customized and strategic multi-strategy arrangements, including developing of terms, addressing marketability considerations, conducting cost-benefit analyses, and managing structuring issues, product documentation, and negotiations with leading institutional investors across the globe.

Career

Managing Director, Legal and Compliance at GSO Capital Partners/The Blackstone Group 2013

Chief Compliance Officer at GSO Capital Partners/The Blackstone Group 2018

Managing Director, Client & Product Solutions Group, Head of New Product Structuring at Apollo Global Management 2019

Partner, Clifford Chance, 2021

Education

University Of Notre Dame (B.S.) 1996
University Of Virginia School Of Law (J.D.) 2001
Law Clerk for The Honorable J. Clifford Wallace, Senior Circuit Judge, Chief Judge Emeritus, U.S. Court Of Appeals For The Ninth Circuit, San Diego, CA 2001
Admitted as an attorney in New York 2011