MELANIE SCHASCHL is an associate in the Investment Funds group in the New York office.
Melanie’s practice includes counseling investment managers in the formation and offering of private equity funds, hedge funds and registered funds. She is fluent in Portuguese and has experience in international transactions, particularly in Latin America.
Sidley’s Investment Funds practice team has won numerous top awards as a provider of legal services to the investment funds industry: two-time winner of Chambers and Partners’ “Investment Funds Team of the Year for the U.S.”; Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine’s 2014 Alpha Awards top “onshore” (U.S.) law firm serving the hedge fund industry; four-time recipient of first-tier national rankings in the U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings for Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, and Derivatives and Futures Law; and ranked in the top band for Hedge Funds by Chambers USA every year since 2008.