Ms. Alberstadt's practice focuses on the regulation and governance of registered investment companies and investment advisers and unregistered investment companies.

Ms. Alberstadt provides counsel regarding the Investment Company Act of 1940 and assists in the preparation and submission of exemptive applications and regulatory filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  She represents investment advisers with regard to regulatory and compliance matters.  She also represents registered and unregistered investment advisers in connection with the creation and operation of private investment companies - both domestic and offshore.  Ms. Alberstadt has also represented clients in civil litigation, including administrative proceedings brought by the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.  Ms. Alberstadt serves as the Firm's informal liason to the New York Legal Assistance Group.

LL.M., Taxation, New York University School of Law, 1994
J.D., summa cum laude, Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University, 1992

• Editor in Chief, Detroit College of Law Review
• Research, Writing & Advocacy Honors
• Edward G. Rakow Award, Federal Bar Association of Detroit
  American Natural Resources Award
• Commitment to Justice Award, Network for Women's Services (inMotion), February 2000
• American Jurisprudence Book Award, Contracts II
  

B.A., St. John's College, 1987

Honorable Charles L. Levin, Michigan Supreme Court, 1992 - 1993

New York, 1995
Michigan, 1992

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1996

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
American Bar Association