practice areas
practice accolades
Ranked, National Tier 1: Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, U.S. News and Best Lawyers (2010)
honors + affiliations
bar admissions
- Paris
- New York
Ann G. Baker is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice and a member of the Private Investment Funds Practice. Ms. Baker focuses her practice on private equity and investment fund structuring and formation. She represents sponsors of and investors in a broad range of international private equity and other private investment funds, including leveraged buyout, venture capital, real estate and infrastructure funds, as well as funds of funds and secondary funds. Her practice includes advising secondary funds and other investors in the structuring and purchase of portfolios of fund interests. She also advises European and U.S. fund sponsors on multijurisdictional offerings to a diverse international institutional investor base. Ms. Baker additionally advises investment managers and other financial institutions on regulatory issues that relate to fund raising and operational matters.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Baker was an international counsel at a business law firm. While there, she lead the Paris office's private equity fund formation practice.
Ms. Baker is a frequent speaker at private equity conferences and events. She also participates in various committees of the French private equity association (Association Française des Investisseurs en Capital).
Ms. Baker received her J.D., cum laude, from Tulane University Law School in 1981 and her B.A. in political science from Wellesley College in 1978. She is fluent in French and English.
Ms. Baker is admitted to practice in Paris and New York. She is a registered foreign lawyer in England & Wales.
Ann G. Baker est associée et exerce au sein du département corporate de Morgan Lewis dans le domaine de la structuration de fonds.
Mme Baker exerce depuis plus de 25 ans aux Etats-Unis et en France où, depuis plus de 10 ans, elle a développé une pratique plus spécifique en matière de private equity. Elle est une spécialiste reconnue en matière de structuration de fonds. Elle conseille des clients sponsors pour la structuration de leurs véhicules de fonds, et la levée de ces fonds auprès de différentes catégories d'investisseurs institutionnels internationaux. Elle conseille également des clients investisseurs sur leurs investissements dans des fonds.
Mme Baker intègre le département « Private Investment Funds » dirigé par Louis H. Singer à New York. Ce département, qui compte près de 50 avocats dans les différents bureaux de Morgan Lewis, est spécialisé dans la structuration de fonds et représente notamment des fonds LBO, des fonds venture, des fonds immobiliers, des fonds mezzanine, ou encore des fonds de fonds.
Avant de rejoindre le bureau de Paris de Morgan Lewis, Mme Baker a exercé au sein du cabinet Debevoise & Plimpton dont elle dirigeait à Paris l'équipe de structuration de fonds de capital-investissement.
education
- Tulane University Law School, 1981, J.D., Cum Laude
- Wellesley College, 1978, B.A.