Willa Cohen Bruckner is a member of the Financial Services and Products Group in our New York office. She concentrates on derivatives, structured products, and alternative investments and brings to her practice over 25 years of experience as a financial services attorney. Ms. Bruckner has worked extensively in new product development and in negotiation and documentation of a wide variety of derivatives products and complex financial transactions. She also advises on the structure and establishment of hedge funds and other pooled investment vehicles and assists hedge fund and private equity fund investors with due diligence review. Ms. Bruckner works with clients on the preparation and implementation of legal and compliance policies and procedures related to investment and trading businesses. She draws on experience in a broad range of financial transactions, investments, and services, including derivatives, structured notes, securitizations, hedge funds and private equity funds, debt financings, investment management, credit support, and corporate trust.

Prior to joining Alston & Bird, Ms. Bruckner was general counsel for a family investment office and fund of funds. Before that, she was a partner at Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP. She has also served as the lead capital markets attorney at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in New York, as a capital markets and lending attorney for The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. and as an international lending attorney for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company.

Ms. Bruckner received her J.D. from The University of Pennsylvania Law School, her M.A. in economics from Yale University and her B.S. with highest honors in mathematics from The University of Michigan. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.