DANNIA ALTEMIMEI focuses her practice on advising investment managers with respect to the structure, formation, and ongoing operational needs of alternative investment products, including domestic and offshore hedge funds. Dannia advises clients on a wide range of regulatory and corporate matters involving fund formation, securities, derivatives, and futures. Her work includes counseling hedge funds, commodity pools, and other market participants on trading and compliance issues related to securities, futures, and derivatives, as well as investment adviser regulation. She also advises buy-side clients in negotiating derivatives and trading documentation.
Dannia spent eight years at a large global asset manager, where she held several senior legal roles, including senior deputy general counsel. In that capacity, she advised on fund formation, investor and side letter negotiations, regulatory issues, and derivatives and trading documentation. In her role, Dannia supported the firm’s legal, compliance, treasury, marketing, and portfolio management functions. She served on several of the firm’s committees, including the Expense Allocation Committee, Valuation Committee, and Counterparty Credit Committee.
Dannia was named to The Hedge Fund Journal’s 2023 “50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds” list.
In 2013, Dannia received her J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law, where she graduated first in her class, summa cum laude, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, Dannia served on the University of Illinois Law Review. She earned her B.A., magna cum laude, from Loyola University Chicago in 2010.
Dannia began her career at Sidley’s offices in Chicago, in the Investment Funds group.