Band 2
Band 2
Provided by 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.
Provided by Chambers
Provided by Chambers
Elizabeth has a lot of industry knowledge, a strong sense of where the SEC is leaning towards and navigates helpful solutions. She arms us with the knowledge we need to create sustainable solutions.
She is very experienced and has a clear understanding of the regulatory landscape. She has a good deal of business knowledge and is very practical. We consider her to be a very valuable resource.
Elizabeth is a great lawyer and very well informed.
Elizabeth is one of the best lawyers I've encountered for getting to the root of a problem and providing commercially reasonable solutions to legal conundrums.
Elizabeth balances practicality and strong commercial sensibility. She stays on top of current trends and her legal advice enhances the operation of our business.
Elizabeth provides excellent advice and is very experienced.
She is very capable, has a deep understanding of her area and a wealth of experience to draw on. She is creative and gives solutions that meet our commercial objectives within our given risk appetite.
Elizabeth has a lot of industry knowledge, a strong sense of where the SEC is leaning towards and navigates helpful solutions. She arms us with the knowledge we need to create sustainable solutions.
She is very experienced and has a clear understanding of the regulatory landscape. She has a good deal of business knowledge and is very practical. We consider her to be a very valuable resource.
Elizabeth is a great lawyer and very well informed.
Elizabeth is one of the best lawyers I've encountered for getting to the root of a problem and providing commercially reasonable solutions to legal conundrums.
Elizabeth balances practicality and strong commercial sensibility. She stays on top of current trends and her legal advice enhances the operation of our business.
Elizabeth provides excellent advice and is very experienced.
She is very capable, has a deep understanding of her area and a wealth of experience to draw on. She is creative and gives solutions that meet our commercial objectives within our given risk appetite.