Practice Areas
Honors + Affiliations
Member, Securities Industry Association
Member, National Association of Public Pension Attorneys
Fellow, American College of Investment Counsel
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2008)
Listed, Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
- New York
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101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0002
Phone: 212.309.6607
Fax: 212.309.6001
Georgette A. Schaefer is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice and a member of the firm’s Private Investment Funds Practice. Ms. Schaefer has expertise in the areas of general corporate law, securities transactions, and securities law compliance. She serves as outside counsel to many of the largest pension funds in the United States, universities, insurance companies and investment managers with respect to investments, securities transactions and securities law compliance.
Before joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Schaefer was of counsel at a large, international law firm. Prior to that, she was senior vice president and counsel at USLIFE Corporation and spent seven years as an attorney for The Equitable.
Ms. Schaefer earned her LL.M. in corporate law from the New York University School of Law in 1997 and her J.D. from the Rutgers University School of Law – Newark in 1987. She received her M.A. in anthropology from New York University and her B.A. in sociology from Jersey City State College, where she was admitted to the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society and was listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities.
Ms. Schaefer is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.
Education
- New York University School of Law, 1997, LL.M.
- Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, 1987, J.D.
- New York University, 1978, M.A.
- Jersey City State College, 1974, B.A., Phi Alpha Theta