Shelley J. Rosensweig

Shelley Rosensweig is a partner in the investment management group at Haynes Boone, where she has spent over 25 years structuring complex investment vehicles and navigating regulatory challenges for investment managers.

She advises sponsors across the alternative investment market on the formation and operation of hedge funds, private equity funds, private credit vehicles and venture capital funds in U.S. and international markets. Shelley represents managers at every stage of the business lifecycle — from initial platform launch through later-stage growth — bringing a practice that spans fund formation, ongoing compliance and the full range of operational and investor issues that arise as strategies and businesses evolve.

Her work also includes structuring and negotiating managed accounts, joint ventures, SPVs, co-investment vehicles, secondary transactions, continuation funds and evergreen funds, giving clients flexibility to meet investor demand and deploy capital across a range of formats beyond the traditional pooled fund.

On the investor side, Shelley advises family offices and other institutional and sophisticated LPs on their investments in alternative vehicles, including private funds, co-investments and separately managed account platforms. She also counsels family offices on establishing and structuring their investment platforms, helping ultra-high-net-worth families build the legal and operational infrastructure to invest effectively across asset classes. Whether representing a GP building a new fund or an LP deploying capital into one, she brings the same depth of knowledge to both sides of the transaction.

In addition to fund structuring and formation, Shelley counsels clients on SEC, FINRA and CFTC compliance matters, operating agreements, capital raising, distribution strategies, employment matters and operational issues across the life of the business.