Elizabeth Shea Fries

ELIZABETH SHEA FRIES is the global leader of the firm’s market-leading Investment Funds practice, managing partner of Sidley’s Boston office, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Liz provides clients strategic advice on a broad range of transactions, business and investment structures, and regulatory matters. She has particular experience in creating, structuring, and investing in asset management and other financial businesses, and in helping clients develop and offer innovative investment funds and services.

Liz maintains a diverse practice covering all aspects of the asset management business, working with investment managers, funds, broker-dealers, pension consultants, banks, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and other firms. Liz has guided both financial and strategic buyers, as well as sellers through mergers, acquisitions, GP stakes deals, seed transactions, debt and equity financing, and other complex deals. Her investment funds work spans multiple sectors including hedge funds, credit funds, real estate, endowment strategies, and funds of funds. Liz provides strategic compliance advice in these sectors, as well as in private equity, venture capital, energy, and infrastructure.