Amie Benedetto

• Forming and offering various private equity funds, REITs, separate accounts, and co-investment vehicles focused on traditional core, value-add, and opportunistic real estate investments, special situations, mezzanine loans, senior debt, and land opportunities.
• Negotiating and drafting investment management agreements, marketing materials, private placement memoranda, limited partnership agreements, subscription documentation, placement agent agreements, and side letters related to various real estate investment vehicles, including private equity funds, hedge funds, co-investment funds, and separate accounts.
• Reporting and compliance pursuant to the 1940 Investment Advisers Act, including ADV filings, advertising rules, principal transactions, conflict management, expense allocation, best execution, and custody arrangements.
• Representing institutional and privately managed real estate private equity funds in the acquisition, financing, restructuring, and sale of real-estate-related investments, including real estate development, operating and management companies, and direct real estate investing in office, multifamily, retail, hospitality, and industrial.
• Reporting and compliance pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, Bank Holding Company Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FINRA, and various anti-money laundering rules and regulations.
• Designing and implementing a compliance program for a newly formed SEC registered investment adviser, including development of a compliance manual, code of ethics, and other SEC best practice policies and procedures.
• Preparing for SEC investment adviser onsite examinations.
• Authored and presented trainings to registered investment adviser supervised persons relating to legal and regulatory compliance and best practices.

Amie Benedetto is a partner in the Investment Funds Group. Amie advises major financial institutions, fund sponsors, investment advisers, and institutional investors on the formation, offering, management and regulatory compliance of private funds. She offers counsel on comingled funds, separate accounts, REITs, funds of one, general partner funds, and co-investments — spanning real estate, private credit, timber, infrastructure, renewable energy, and other private equity asset classes. Amie is adept at forming both closed-end and open-end evergreen fund structures in the U.S. and abroad.

Before joining the firm, Amie served as in-house counsel at Proprium Capital Partners, a privately held real estate principal investing firm, where she was responsible for all in house legal aspects of fund formation, management, investor relations, real estate transactions, and regulatory compliance. She also served as a vice president and executive director at Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing, where she was general counsel to the Real Estate Special Situations Funds and counsel to the MSREF fund series. Amie began her legal career at an international law firm representing investment banks and private equity funds in the acquisition, development, leasing, and sale of various real estate assets.

Amie is recognized as a leading attorney by Chambers USA in the Private Equity: Fund Formation category and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America^® in the Real Estate category.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia
• New York

Education

• Boston College (J.D., 2003)
• Florida State University (B.M.E., 1997)

Memberships