Jessica OpilaThwing (Jess)

Jess Thwing represents investment funds and their investors in a wide variety of transactions. She has experience advising sponsors in fund formation, governance, regulatory compliance, and dissolution in multiple jurisdictions, as well as with respect to investment management arrangements, real estate joint ventures, co-investments, and secondary transactions. She also has advised institutional investors throughout the primary investment, secondary investment, and co-investment process in buyout, venture, infrastructure, hedge, private credit, and real estate funds. In addition, Jess has experience in leveraged buyouts, divestitures, and portfolio company governance matters.

Some of the clients Jess has recently worked with include The Riverside Company, MPE Partners, Franklin Park, MARK Capital Management Limited, Rockwood Equity Partners, and Everberg Capital Partners and on the investor side, several multinational institutional investors.

Jess is involved in the Chicago area's arm of Girls on the Run, an organization that works with elementary and middle school aged girls to help them develop athletic, interpersonal, and personal goals.

While in law school, Jess competed in the Michigan Law Transactional Competition and was awarded "Best Drafting for Buyer-side Counsel." In addition, she wrote a note titled "How Elonis Failed to Clarify the Analysis of "True Threats" in Social Media Cases and the Subsequent Need for Congressional Response," which is published in Vol. 24, Issue 1 of the Michigan Technology Law Review.