Lexi Santa Ana represents top private fund sponsors, investors, and joint venture participants in forming, investing in, and operating private investment funds and permanent capital vehicles and executing secondary transactions.

Lexi regularly advises sponsors, from leading institutional asset managers to first-time or boutique fund managers, as well as institutional investors — including strategic corporates and family offices.

She advises sponsors on their formation, global fundraising, capital deployment, and operating activities for a range of private funds, including:

  • Infrastructure funds
  • Energy funds
  • Buyout funds
  • Credit funds
  • Real estate funds
  • Growth equity funds
  • Structured equity funds

Lexi works closely with clients on secondary transactions, private investment product offerings, and in implementing complex, bespoke, and innovative vehicles with a range of structures, including:

  • Complex strategic minority and preferred equity investments
  • Structured liquidity solutions
  • Co-investment arrangements
  • Internal sponsor arrangements
  • Permanent capital vehicles
  • Joint ventures
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Other long-term partnering arrangemen ts

Representative clients include:

  • Ares
  • Bay Grove Capital
  • Bridge Investment Group
  • Dawson Partners
  • Duration Capital Partners
  • Hackman Capital Partners
  • Hunter Point Capital
  • Lineage Logistics
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Orion Infrastructure Capital
  • Riverspan Partners

Bar Qualification

  • Illinois
  • Texas

Education

  • JD, University of Texas School of Law, 2017
  • M.Ed., Southern Methodist University, 2014
  • BA, University of Pennsylvania, 2012

Practices