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Sasha Burstein

Sasha Burstein is a partner and practice area leader in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds practice. She concentrates her practice on the structuring and formation of a wide range of private markets investment products and platforms, including private equity and private credit funds, closed-end, open-end, evergreen, semi-liquid, and fund-of-funds vehicles. She has particular experience structuring investment products for institutional investors and the wealth management market, including globally offered and distributed vehicles and complex distribution and platform arrangements.

Sasha also has extensive experience with secondary transactions, co-investments, and liquidity solutions, including purchases and sales of fund interests, secondary fund vehicles, and bespoke liquidity structures. She provides comprehensive counsel to investment advisers throughout the lifecycle of their businesses, including formation, product development, operations, M&A, and other strategic transactions. Sasha also advises institutional investors, asset managers and other market participants on strategic transactions, including partnerships and joint ventures, seeding arrangements, and other bespoke investment and commercial arrangements.

  • Recognized by Chambers USA for Private Equity: Fund Formation, USA-Nationwide, 2025-2026
  • Recognized by Chambers Global for Private Equity: Fund Formation, USA-Nationwide, 2026
  • Recognized by The Legal 500 United States as a Recommended Lawyer for Private Equity Funds (Including Venture Capital), 2025-2026
  • California Alternative Investments Association–Board Member, Best Practices Committee Chair
  • 100 Women in Finance–Education Committee

Sasha is a frequent speaker and panelist at leading industry conferences on developments and trends shaping the investment management and private markets industries.

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