Susan Dunn

Susan Dunn is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s asset management group. She focuses her practice on the formation and operation of private investment funds across a range of strategies, including buyout, direct lending, growth, special situations, and venture capital, as well as regulatory and compliance matters. She counsels leading institutional investors on primary investments and co-investments and has experience advising on continuation vehicle transactions, as well as the tax structuring and negotiation of programmatic GP stakes investments.

Before transitioning to asset management, Susan spent over five years as a tax associate at leading international law firms, where she advised on a broad range of transactional and fund-related tax matters, including whole business securitizations, rated note feeder structures, secondary transactions, public and private M&A, IPOs, and large-scale corporate restructurings and bankruptcies. That experience gives her a distinctive perspective on the tax dimensions of the fund structures and transactions she advises on today.

While at Ropes & Gray, Susan spent over nine months on secondment to Advent International, providing her with practical insight into the private equity landscape.

Prior to attending law school, she worked at Morgan Stanley in its Global Power & Utilities Group, where she focused on mergers and acquisitions, and in the firm’s High Yield Capital Markets Group. She also worked at Harvard University on its Capital Projects and Real Estate team.

Susan is committed to pro bono service and giving back to her community. She has advised pro bono clients on a range of matters, including structuring innovative private funds with impact objectives, and assisting asylum seekers with immigration matters.