GC Influencers
Most Influential GCs - USA
Breck Hancock of DST Global
After almost a decade practicing in the transactional group at Goodwin, Breck Hancock was appointed as general counsel to growth equity investor DST Global in 2014, putting her in the driving seat of a legal department which has played a key role in the fund’s minority investments in a number of household-name technology companies, including Facebook, Alibaba, Twitter and Airbnb. Hancock, who also serves as DST’s chief operating officer, has a wide-ranging role with responsibilities over issues such as fund administration, compliance matters and steering transactional strategy.
She has earned a earned a particularly impressive reputation for her skilled use of hybrid primary and secondary transactions in the firm’s typically later-stage investments – deals which endow investees with a greater level of liquidity than usually associated with growth investments. Her transactional nous and legal expertise see her labelled as an “exceptionally skilled” practitioner by market commentators, who also note the “unique combination of legal and financial acumen” that she brings to bear for the firm.