Olga A. Loy is a private equity lawyer who focuses on tax planning, regulatory and compliance work, merger and acquisitions and fund formation matters. Ms. Loy represents funds and fund sponsors in structuring, negotiating and forming private equity and venture capital funds.

Ms. Loy plans and structures other complex business transactions, including corporate mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and venture capital investments. She also advises investment advisers, hedge funds, registered investment companies and broker-dealers across a broad range of investment management, securities and general corporate matters. In addition, she represents institutional investors in connection with their investment in funds and other types of investment pools.

Ms. Loy has represented numerous large and mid-size private equity funds and their management companies, and she has handled transactions of all sizes. Clients she has represented include private equity funds and fund management companies investing in North America, Eastern Europe and Latin America. She also represents private equity clients in private equity and venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and buyouts, with an emphasis on tax structuring and planning.

Ms. Loy is an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, where she teaches a course on private investment funds, introducing students to business, securities and tax issues relating to private investment funds, with a particular focus on private equity, venture capital and hedge funds.