Prior to joining the firm, Monika ran the legal department globally of a registered hedge fund and private equity fund adviser managing $2 billion in assets across a variety of investment strategies, including equities, real estate, and multi-strategy, in emerging markets. While serving as first in-house counsel for the firm, she established its first office in Asia, structured and launched new U.S. and offshore private investment funds, and developed and oversaw regulatory compliance programs in the United States, Singapore, India, and Mauritius.
Previously, Monika served as a regulatory compliance consultant, where she counseled hedge fund and private equity fund advisers managing up to multiple billion-dollar assets on comprehensive compliance with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules and regulations. She led teams conducting mock SEC examinations and annual compliance program reviews, developed initial compliance programs from the ground up, and led firmwide trainings for clients on key compliance issues.
Monika started her career in the asset management group of a Boston-based global law firm where she represented hedge fund and private equity fund advisers on a variety of fund formation, transactional, and securities law matters. She structured, negotiated, and formed U.S. and offshore private investment funds. She also advised those entities and their sponsors on a variety of regulatory and compliance matters, both federal and state, on an ongoing basis.
While in law school, Monika served as a legal intern in the Washington, D.C. office of U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton during 9/11. She assisted then-Sen. Clinton and her chief legal counsel with various projects in the immediate aftermath, such as providing support to first responders, helping arrange the transport of special demolition equipment to New York City, and drafting proposed amendments to the draft USA PATRIOT Act.
