Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Michael A. Gerstenzang is the firm's managing partner based in the New York office. Mr. Gerstenzang's practice focuses on private investment funds, including forming and advising private equity, credit, growth, special situations, infrastructure, venture capital and hedge funds, and other types of alternative investment vehicles. Practice also includes secondary transactions and co-investment arrangements, as well as representing LPs in connection with private investment funds. Has experience representing fund sponsors and investment teams in connection with negotiating “seed” investments, spin-outs, joint ventures, and other general partner/management company arrangements.

Mr. Gerstenzang joined the firm in 1992 and became a partner in 1999. From 1994 through 1996, he was resident in the Brussels office.

Mr. Gerstenzang is the former Chair of the International Bar Association's Subcommittee on Private Investment Funds, and is a member of the Private Investment Fund Forum, a group comprised of lawyers practicing primarily in the private investment fund area. Mr. Gerstenzang regularly speaks on private investment related topics, including at the IBA/ABA International Conference on Private Investment Funds and the Private Equity Forum sponsored by the Practising Law Institute. Mr. Gerstenzang is a member of the Bar in New York, and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Mr. Gerstenzang received a J.D. degree from Columbia University in 1989, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and an undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1986. From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Gerstenzang served as a law clerk to the Honorable Frank X. Altimari, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 1991 to 1992, he was a legal assistant to the Honorable Richard C. Allison at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in the Hague.