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Leslie A. Pinney

Senior Counsel

Leslie A. Pinney

Senior Counsel

Leslie Pinney helps private investment sponsors with all aspects of fund formation, including capital raising, marketing, preparing offering documents, and drafting organizational documents. She also counsels clients on regulatory, compliance, and operational issues during both an active fund raise and the operational stage, including concerning sponsor-carried interest and management company arrangements. Leslie’s sponsor clients include established and emerging private equity, venture capital, growth equity, credit, and fund-of-funds sponsors.  She is a member of the firm’s Fund Formation & Investment Management Practice.

Leslie’s experience includes advising institutional investors, including endowments, family offices, governmental plans, fund-of-funds, and corporations, on their private capital investment activity. She also advises private fund sponsors, buyers, and sellers in secondary transactions and works with clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, corporate governance, and public company reporting and compliance.

Affiliations

Leslie is a member of the Transactions Practice Group. Before joining Foley, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Nancy G. Edmunds, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Before pursuing a legal career, Leslie worked in New York City as the senior management executive for Tony Nominated Broadway shows and first national tours

Presentations and Publications

November 4, 2025 In the News

Stuart Fross and Leslie Pinney Contribute Chapter to Private Credit Handbook

Foley & Lardner LLP partner Stuart Fross and senior counsel Leslie Pinney contributed a chapter on private credit funding to Global Legal Insights Private Credit 2026.
July 9, 2025 Foley Viewpoints

SEC and CFTC Extend Form PF Compliance Date Again

On June 11, 2025 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) again extended the...
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January 21, 2025 Foley Viewpoints

SEC Settlement Highlights Importance of Proper Disclosure Requirements for Private Fund Managers

On January 10th 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges against two fund managers and their sole owner, chief executive office, chief compliance office and founder.
August 28, 2023 Deals and Wins

Foley Advises Comvest Credit Partners in Formation of $2B Credit Fund

Foley & Lardner LLP served as co-legal advisor to Comvest Credit Partners, the direct landing platform of the operationally focused middle-market private investment firm Comvest Partners, in the final close of its sixth flagship credit fund Comvest Credit Partners VI.
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February 1, 2023 Foley Funds Legal Focus

Proposed Amendments Schedule 13D – Part One

In February 2022, the Security and Exchange Commission proposed an amendment to Schedules 13D and 13G of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, to modernize its reporting rules and ultimately to speed up the rate at which information is made available to the public.
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February 1, 2023 Foley Funds Legal Focus

Proposed Amendments Schedule 13D - Part Two

As noted in our related blog post, the SEC has proposed amendments to Schedules 13D and 13G of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, to modernize its reporting rules and improve the speed and substance of the information made available to the public.