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Dania Sharma

Of Counsel

Chicago

+1 312-558-3173

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Dania focuses her practice on private equity fund formation and management, including structuring, fundraising, maintenance, and regulatory compliance.

Dania represents clients in the formation and management of private equity funds, as well as with the evaluation and negotiation of private equity investments. Dania regularly represents buyout funds, funds-of-funds, venture funds, single investor funds, and emerging market funds. She has particular expertise in providing LP-side advice to funds-of-funds, endowments, pension funds, family offices, and other institutional investors in connection with their investments in private investment funds. Dania also regularly represents both sponsors and investors in connection with the formation of co-investment vehicles and advises clients on the purchase and sale of secondary interests in private funds. 

Over the years, she has developed a pro bono practice representing immigrants in connection with their DACA, citizenship, and asylum applications.

 

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Private Equity
Transactions
Private Investment Funds
Financial Services
Energy
Energy Transition

Credentials

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Dania received a J.D., cum laude, in 2009 from Washington University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Washington University Global Studies Law Review and an A.B., with honors, in International Studies and Germanic Studies from The University of Chicago in 2004.

    Admissions
    • Illinois
    Languages
    • French
    • German

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    Capabilities

    Private Equity
    Transactions
    Private Investment Funds
    Financial Services
    Energy
    Energy Transition
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