Nikole K. Zoumberakis

Nikole K. Zoumberakis

Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Nikole Zoumberakis is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Baker McKenzie. Her practice is focused on the formation and operation of private investment funds, including private equity, venture capital and real estate, and other investment advisory businesses. She also represents family offices and other institutional investors in their investment transactions. Nikole works with both established firms and newly launched and expanding managers.

Nikole concentrates her practice on structuring and organizing various types of private investment funds, counseling on their formation and fundraising activities, as well as their ongoing operations, investor relations, governance and investing activities. Her practice includes advising on internal governance and compliance issues as well as on federal and state securities laws and regulations. In addition, Nikole counsels family offices on a wide range of investment and corporate matters, providing advice on investment structuring and regulatory matters.

Nikole has also represented a number of emerging growth companies as outside corporate counsel in financing transactions and on matters of general business and corporate law. She has extensive experience negotiating, structuring and closing a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships.

Practice Focus

Nikole concentrates her practice on structuring and organizing various types of private investment funds, counseling on their formation and fundraising activities, as well as their ongoing operations, investor relations, governance and investing activities. Her practice includes advising on internal governance and compliance issues as well as on federal and state securities laws and regulations. In addition, Nikole counsels family offices on a wide range of investment and corporate matters, providing advice on investment structuring and regulatory matters.

Nikole has also represented a number of emerging growth companies as outside corporate counsel in financing transactions and on matters of general business and corporate law. She has extensive experience negotiating, structuring and closing a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnerships.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Serves as fund counsel for Cosmos Management, including structuring asset management firm and the formation and launch of its venture capital fund, Cosmos Fund.
  • Serves as fund counsel for Fvlcrum Partners, including structuring asset management firm and the formation and launch of its private equity funds, Fvlcrum Fund and Fvlcrum Fund II.
  • Serves as US counsel to Marathon-London Asset Management, an investment management firm based in London.
  • Serves as fund counsel to KCB Management and KCB Real Estate Management, a private equity and real estate fund manager with a portfolio of investments across the US.
  • Represented Meaningful Partners in connection with structuring its asset management company and the formation and launch of Meaningful Partners Dedicated Capital Vehicle II, and its inaugural private equity fund, Meaningful Partners Dedicated Capital Vehicle I.
  • Serves as fund counsel to real estate fund managers in connection with fund formation, including open-end and closed-end funds, funds of funds, DSTs and infrastructure, hedge, energy, debt and QOZ funds.

Admissions

  • California~United States

Education

  • New York University School of Law (J.D.) (2006)
  • University of California, Berkeley (B.A.) (2002)

Languages

  • English
  • Greek
  • Author, "Amendment to State Law Governing Shareholder Distribution," Los Angeles Daily Journal, February 2012