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Amy Bevacqua, Esq.

General Counsel

Amy Bevacqua joined New Rhein in May 2018 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel and has overall responsibility for the legal and compliance matters of the firm. For eight years prior to joining New Rhein, Amy was Associate General Counsel of New York University primarily dedicated to the investing activities of the ~$4 billion combined endowment of the University and Law School, and to the University’s financing activities, for which she worked closely with the Investment and the Finance Committees of the Board of Trustees and the University’s and Law School’s chief financial officers. For ten years prior to joining NYU, Amy was Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of private equity manager AEA Investors LP, an international middle market buyout firm with approximately $5 billion of AUM, where she oversaw legal matters for multiple funds, investment acquisition and sale transactions, and corporate governance. Prior to joining AEA, Amy was an attorney in the New York, London and Paris offices of Shearman & Sterling LLP, involved in international private equity and U.S. capital market transactions primarily for clients Morgan Stanley Private Equity Partners, Soros Private Equity Partners, Morgan Stanley investment bank, and Citibank. Amy received her J.D. with honors from Boston University School of Law, where she was Executive Editor of the International Law Review, a Paul J. Liaco Scholar, and a G. Joseph Tauro Scholar, and received her B.A. with honors from Barnard College, Columbia University. Amy is an avid supporter of the performing arts who attended the Interlochen Arts Academy to study dance, and from time to time serves on the boards of charitable arts organizations. Amy lives with her family in New York City. 

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