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Provided by Margaret Niles
Margaret Niles has a domestic and international business transactions practice centering on alternative investments and joint ventures for investors. She focuses on representing public pension funds, university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors in private equity funds, hedge funds, and other commingled funds of all kinds. Margaret also works with bespoke investment vehicles for her clients, such as funds-of-one and separately managed accounts. With her clients, she focuses on all aspects of fiduciary duties in the investment context. Her experience includes significant work on public disclosure requirements and other regulatory matters applicable to institutional investors.
Margaret is nationally ranked since 2019 in the Chambers USA publication for her work in the “Nationwide Investment Funds: Investor Representation” category, and she is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for her work in private funds.
"The New Do-It-Yourselfers," The Deal, October 2006
Recognized by Chambers Global for Investment Funds: Investor Representation, USA-Nationwide, 2024-2026
Trustee, Church Pension Fund (multibillion-dollar fund for employees of the Episcopal Church), 2009-2022
Chair, Finance Committee, 2015-2022
Board Member, Endowment for Equal Justice (fund supporting civil legal aid in the State of Washington), 2017-present
Treasurer and Chair, Operations and Investment Committee, 2022-present
Member, Investment Committee, 2009-2022
Recognized by Chambers USA for Investment Funds: Investor Representation in USA-Nationwide, 2019-2025
Listed on Best Lawyers in America® for Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, 2010-2022
Seattle Business Magazine, Best Lawyers in the Business, Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, 2016
Law Clerk, Hon. Eugene A. Wright, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1983-84
Stanford Law School (Irving Hellman, Jr. Special Award, Carl Mason Franklin Prize, Hilmer Oehlmann, Jr. Prize, Associate Managing Editor Stanford Law Review, President International Law Society)
J.D.
1983
Harvard University (cum laude, Russian, Summer Russian language program, Leningrad State program, Leningrad State University 1976)
B.A.
1977
Provided by Chambers
Margaret Niles is recognized for her expertise in investment fund matters and focuses on advising institutional investors, such as public pension funds.
Provided by Chambers
Margaret has a strong investor representation practice.
Margaret has a strong investor representation practice.