Nadia Sager is an elite senior lawyer who leverages 30 years of experience to deliver premier solutions for matters at the intersection of private capital, permanent capital, and fund formation. She has been recognized as an American Lawyer 2025 Dealmaker of the Year, as a recommended practitioner by Chambers and Legal 500, and previously served as Global Co-Chair of Latham’s Investment Funds Practice.

Nadia is renowned for her ability to develop novel market products and capital raising structures that set industry trends. She has raised many tens of billions of dollars into proprietary structures for sponsors and institutional investors. CEOs, company founders, and boards regularly seek Nadia’s strategic advice, including on their most significant bet-the-company matters. 

Complementing her unparalleled specialty private capital practice, Nadia also guides first-time fund managers, leading institutional asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, strategic corporates, funds of funds, family offices, tax-exempt organizations, and other sponsors and investors on the full range of global capital raising, fund formation, capital deployment, and operating activities, including in connection with:

  • Private capital company structures
  • Real estate, real asset, infrastructure, and energy funds
  • Buyout, equity, credit, and other funds
  • Open-end and evergreen funds 
  • Venture funds and early-stage vehicles
  • Co-investment funds, continuation vehicles, SMAs, and SPVs
  • Joint ventures, strategic partnerships, club arrangements, and syndicated vehicles
  • Buying and selling control and minority stakes in asset management firms
  • Internal sponsor arrangements
  • Sponsor spin-outs
  • Separation arrangements

Nadia serves as a Director on the Board of Directors of BRIDGE Housing, a leading nonprofit developer, owner, and manager of affordable housing.

Nadia’s representative clients include:

  • Bridge Investment Group
  • Concord Music
  • DNS Capital and other Pritzker Family Offices
  • DoubleLine Capital
  • Duration Capital Partners
  • Emergent Cold Latin America
  • Enstructure
  • Figure
  • Fireside Investments
  • Flagship Pioneering
  • Greenpoint Partners
  • Grosvenor Capital Management
  • Hackman Capital Partners
  • Indigo Partners
  • IQHQ Advisors
  • Jackson Hole Mountain Resort
  • Lineage, Inc.
  • Monarch Collective
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Neos Partners
  • NFL Players Association
  • Oaktree Capital Management
  • Storage Star
  • The StepStone Group
  • Thrive Capital
  • Trinity Capital

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, UCLA School of Law, 1996
  • BA, UCLA, 1993

Languages Spoken

  • English
Financial Times Most Innovative Law Firm 2025
December 10, 2025 Recognition

Latham Named Most Innovative Law Firm in North America

Firm captures the top honor and earns commendations for three individual practitioners, as well as for its excellence in the practice of law, pro bono matters, and business of law initiatives.