Jessica L. Patrick is an investment funds partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Jessica’s practice focuses on representing registered investment companies and their independent directors, investment advisers and other pooled investment vehicles. Her investment company clients include open-end and closed-end funds, exchange-traded funds, interval funds, tender offer funds and business development companies. Jessica also commits significant time to counseling clients on the design and offering of alternative investment products, such as BDCs, funds of funds, interval funds and tender offer funds, that offer access for retail and high net worth investors to a variety of traditional “private market” asset classes, such as private credit and private equity, including on a primary, secondary, direct or co-investment basis. She advises clients on the full range of issues facing registered funds, their independent directors and investment advisers. These include regulatory and compliance matters, SEC exemptive relief applications and compliance, trading and conflict issues, registration and disclosure matters, and extraordinary events such as restructurings, acquisitions and activist matters.
