Laura Schnaidt

Founder and CEO of Women in Funds at Women in Funds

Speaker

Laura Schnaidt is the Founder and CEO of Women in Funds, a business community that brings together over 400 members of the investment management industry for networking and education, and she is also the Founder and Managing Partner of Paradox Principals LLP, a boutique law firm. Ms. Schnaidt navigates investment management legal and operating issues and concentrates her practice on the formation, launch and ongoing operation of emerging and established private investment funds, acting as outsourced general counsel. Ms. Schnaidt previously practiced at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in the investment management group where she advised the world's top private fund clients on fund formation, operating and regulatory issues. Ms. Schnaidt has extensive fund operating experience and held prior roles as in-house counsel to blue chip fund managers, most recently, as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Blue Torch Capital. Ms. Schnaidt began her legal career as an associate attorney at Shearman & Sterling LLP (A&O Shearman), in the corporate department, where she advised private fund and financial institution clients, and prior to becoming an attorney, had stints at the SEC's Enforcement Division, TPG-Axon Capital and Ospraie Management. Ms. Schnaidt has a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from New York Law School.