LEXI TIAN focuses her practice on representing clients in the offering and formation of private investment funds and advising private investment funds managers on the structuring and operation of venture capital, private equity, and hedge funds. She also assists clients with regulatory compliance, fund governance, and secondary transactions. Lexi is fluent in Mandarin and has experience working on cross-border fund matters involving China and other jurisdictions.
Lexi earned her J.D. with a Business Law Certificate from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she served as senior articles editor of the Berkeley Business Law Journal and travaux editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law. Lexi was also president of the China Law Association and worked for the Workers’ Rights Clinic as a student advocate assisting on employment law matters. During law school, Lexi participated in the Halloum Business Negotiation competition and worked as a 1L Summer Associate at a family office assisting on impact investments, grantmaking, and for-profit ventures.
Prior to attending law school, Lexi worked as a finance management assistant in a bank and as a comparative research assistant for a law school’s legal empirical research center. She also worked as a human rights intern for the International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture (FIACAT)’s Permanent Representation to the United Nations in Geneva, where she assisted the NGO’s participation and involvement with the Human Rights Council and Universal Periodic Review.
Lexi received her bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Smith College with a double major in government and economics.