Amanda N. Persaud is counsel in the Corporate Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz where she focuses her practice on the formation, fund raising and operation of domestic and international private investment funds, including private equity funds, hedge funds, fund-of-funds and other alternative asset classes such as real estate, special situations, mezzanine/distressed debt and hybrid funds.

Ms. Persaud has led numerous fund raises for prominent U.S. and international sponsors. She has significant experience advising sponsors in structuring and reorganizing private investment funds as well as assisting sponsors with their internal economic arrangements. Ms. Persaud has negotiated and structured spin-outs and strategic investments in alternative asset management businesses and regularly provides fund-related advice with respect to portfolio acquisitions and dispositions. She has worked with a variety of investors such as pension funds, foreign governments, endowments, foundations, charitable organizations and other institutional investors.

Among Ms. Persaud’s many publications are her recent “Private Fund Advisers May No Longer Be Exempt From Commodities Regulation Under Proposed Rules,” February 2, 2011; “SEC Proposes New Rules and Releases New Studies,” January 25, 2011; “Taking Stock of 2010: Expect the Unexpected,” December 17, 2010; “Pending U.S. and E.U. Legislation Promises Broad Changes for Private Fund Managers,” The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, May 29, 2010 and “Combating Insider Trading: What Works,” Bank and Corporate Governance Law Reporter March 2010.

Ms. Persaud received her B.A. from Duke University in 1994 and earned her J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law in 1999. She is a member of the International Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and serves on the Private Investment Funds Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.