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Areas of Practice
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Representative Experience
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Professional Background
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Bar Admissions
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Education
Areas of Practice
Ms. Niles has a domestic and international business transactions practice centering on alternative investments, acquisitions and joint ventures. She focuses her work on representing institutional investors in private equity funds, hedge funds and other alternative investments as well as strategic partnerships. She also provides on-going advice on general corporate and business matters to clients of various sizes.
The emphasis of Ms. Niles' international work is with U.S. and Russian business clients engaging in trade and investment projects involving the Russian Far East. She has advised clients on establishing joint ventures and other forms of presence under Russian law, as well as on various specific issues affecting trade with and operations in Russia. Ms. Niles has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Washington School of Law teaching courses on Soviet and Russian law. She is fluent in Russian and has worked and traveled extensively throughout the former Soviet Union.
Ms. Niles has been a member of the faculty of the ALI-ABA bi-annual seminar on fundamentals of international business transactions and she is a frequent speaker on international business matters.
Representative Experience
Investment Partnerships
- Represented Cascade Investment LLC in its investment in Invention Science Fund, L.L.C.
- Represented Microsoft in its structured investment in Invention Investment Fund, L.P.
- Represented CalPERS in its investment in Yucaipa America Funds, L.L.C.
- Represented CalPERS in the formation of Health Evolution Partners, LLC and six other proprietary funds in the past year.
- Represented Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund in its investment in Oregon Investment Fund, L.L.C.
- In addition, Margaret represented investors in more than 300 funds in the past decade, including the following since 2005:
- Aetos Capital Asia T.E. II, L.P.
- ArcLight Energy Partners Fund II, L.P
- Bain Capital Fund IX, L.P.
- Barclays Global Investors, N.A.
- Battery Ventures VII, L.P.
- Beacon Capital Strategic Partners III, L.P.
- Calvert Street Capital Partners III, L.P.
- Carlyle Partners IV, L.P.
- Carlyle Strategic Partners, L.P.
- Commonfund Capital Natural Resources Partners V, L.P.
- Coventry Real Estate Fund II, L.L.C.
- Credit Suisse First Boston Strategic Partners III, L.P.
- Endeavor Capital Fund IV, L.P.
- Essex Woodlands Health Venture Fund VI, L.P.
- Francisco Partners II, L.P.
- Frazier Healthcare V, L.P.
- Friedman Fleischer & Lowe Capital Partners II, L.P.
- General Catalyst Group III, L.P.
- Genstar Capital Partners III, L.P.
- Giza Venture Fund IV, L.P.
- Harris Associates International Value, L.P.
- Hellman & Friedman Capital Partners V, L.P.
- Index Ventures III (Delaware), L.P
- J.C. Flowers II, L.P.
- Madrona Venture Fund III, L.P.
- New Enterprise Associates XII, L.P.
- Oak Hill Capital Partners II, L.P.
- Oak Investment Partners XI, L.P.
- Polish Enterprise Fund V, L.P.
- Pomona Capital VI, L.P.
- Silchester International Investors International Value Equity Trust
- Southvest Fund V, L.P.
- TPG Partners V, L.P.
- U.S. Power Fund II, L.P.
- VantagePoint Venture Partners V, L.P.
- Weston Presidio Capital V, L.P.
Joint Ventures And International Transactions
- Represented Marine Resources Company International in obtaining debt and equity financing from The U.S.–Russia Investment Fund.
- Represented Tyson Seafoods, Inc. in its potential establishment of a joint venture seafood processing plant in Russia and other activities in Russia.
- Represented Sound Ocean Systems, Inc. in its formation and ongoing operation of a joint venture with Central Marine Geological and Geophysical Expedition, a Russian research institute.
- Representing Mercy Corps in its micro–lending project in Kazakhstan.
- Represented the Foundation for Russian–American Economic Cooperation in various projects in Russia.
Professional Background
- Law Clerk, Hon. Eugene A. Wright U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1983-84 Law Faculty, Moscow State University, U.S.S.R., 1984-1985
Bar Admissions
Education
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J.D.,
Stanford Law School
(1983)
Irving Hellman, Jr. Special Award, Carl Mason Franklin Prize, Hilmer Oehlmann, Jr. Prize, Associate Managing Editor Stanford Law Review, President International Law Society
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B.A.,
Harvard University
(1977)
cum laude, Russian, Summer Russian language program, Leningrad State program, Leningrad State University 1976
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