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Leslie A. Pinney

Senior adviseur

Leslie A. Pinney

Senior adviseur

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.

Affiliaties

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

Presentaties en publicaties

4 november 2025 In het nieuws

Stuart Fross en Leslie Pinney dragen hoofdstuk bij aan handboek voor particulier krediet

Foley & Lardner LLP partner Stuart Fross en senior counsel Leslie Pinney hebben een hoofdstuk over private kredietfinanciering bijgedragen aan Global Legal Insights Private Credit 2026.
9 juli 2025 Foley uitzichtpunten

SEC en CFTC verlengen nalevingsdatum formulier PF opnieuw

Op 11 juni 2025 hebben de Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) en Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) de...
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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.