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Bio
Meryl practices in the areas of venture capital, corporate law, and private equity. She advises institutional investors and asset managers on the full lifecycle of private market investments. She focuses on investor-side allocations to private equity, private credit, rated feeder vehicles, venture capital, secondaries, real assets, and other private market strategies, as well as advising venture capital and private equity fund sponsors in their formation and investment activities. She combines deep market fluency with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach to structuring, negotiating, and executing complex investments across the capital stack. On the investor side, she represents insurance companies, pension plans, endowments, family offices, non-profits, and fund-of-funds in primary commitments, co-investments, separately managed accounts, and continuation vehicles.
Meryl joined the firm after working in-house for an institutional investor. She received her J.D. cum laude from American University Washington College of Law, and she also holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Boston University and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from American University. She is a member of the North Carolina and New York state bars.
- Raleigh City Farm, Member of the Advisory Council
- Advised large pharmaceutical company in connection with multiple venture capital fund investments in excess of $100 million in capital commitments
- Advised non-profit on implementation of its custom emerging manager investment platform deploying $30 million
- Represented an asset manager in connection with their private equity fund investments
- Served as investor counsel for a separately managed account with $60 million in committed capital
