Throughout the school year, the dean hosts roundtable discussions with prominent guests who have utilized their law degrees in a variety of nontraditional ways. Over lunch with a small group of students, guests discuss their work experiences, sharing valuable insights about how they found their chosen path. Please note that the roundtables are informal and off-the-record.
Ranesh Ramanathan ’99, who will be the dean’s guest on Thursday, April 7, is managing director and deputy general counsel at Bain Capital. Mr. Ramanathan joined Bain Capital in 2008 as its second lawyer. In 2010, he focused his attention on, and became general counsel to, the Capital Markets Businesses of Bain Capital. The Capital Markets Businesses are comprised of Brookside Capital, Bain Capital’s long-short equity manager, and Sankaty Advisors, its credit manager. These business units manage a variety of fund types, from closed-ended to open-ended to managed accounts, in a wide variety of strategies, and have almost $40 billion of assets under management (AUM).
Prior to working at Bain Capital, he was general counsel of Citi Private Equity, Citigroup’s diverse and global private equity business. Mr. Ramanathan’s career at Citigroup started in 2004 as general counsel of Tribeca Global Management, Citigroup’s multi-asset hedge fund. Launched in 2004, Tribeca was Citigroup’s foray into the direct hedge fund market and was built from the ground up using market leading technology. As one of the first employees at Tribeca, Mr. Ramanathan was involved in all aspects of the establishment of this business and helped it grow to over $2 billion of AUM. He began his legal career as an associate at the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP.
Mr. Ramanathan received his JD from NYU Law in 1999, after receiving his BA from Johns Hopkins University in 1993.
The roundtables begin at 12:30 PM in Snow Dining Room. They are open to 18 interested NYU School of Law JD and graduate students. In order to achieve a representational mix of students, we will designate a proportionate number of seats to JD students and graduate students. Within each group (JD or LLM), attendees will be selected randomly from all students who have signed up by 5pm on the day the invitation is distributed.
If you would like to attend, please email Ken Seagreaves at ken.seagreaves@nyu.edu. Please indicate whether you are a JD or graduate student, and whether you have any dietary restrictions. If you are allotted a space, you will receive a confirmation email.