A Partner in the Firm’s Registered Funds Practice, Bissie K. Bonner has experience representing interval funds, tender offer funds, business development companies, listed closed-end funds, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. She regularly advises regulated funds across alternative asset classes, such as private credit, private equity, infrastructure, secondaries, and liquid alternatives, as well as public market asset classes.
Bissie has significant experience with the organization and operation of regulated funds, including disclosure issues, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, policy changes, repurchase offers and tender offers, secondary offerings, reorganizations and restructurings, and liquidations.
Her experience with corporate governance matters includes advising open-end and closed-end fund boards in connection with Investment Company Act of 1940 and state law matters, with respect to contract approvals, fund launches, capital markets transactions and reorganizations, among others. She also has experience counseling closed-end fund boards on interactions with activist investors and anti-activist measures.
Bissie is ranked as “Up and Coming” by Chambers Global (USA) (2026) and Chambers USA (2025) in Registered Funds and was named a “Rising Star” at the With Intelligence Mutual Fund & ETF Awards (2023). Chambers has noted that Bissie “is highly regarded for her representation of registered investment companies and funds” and quotes clients describing her as “having a lot of institutional knowledge” and being “a great resource for the firm.”
Bissie's representative experience includes:
- Counsel to regulated funds managed by affiliates of Blackstone, StepStone, Golub, and AQR
- StepStone Private Equity Strategies Fund, an interval fund that invests in a portfolio of diversified private market investments across buyout and growth equity mainly through secondary purchases and co-investments, in its formation and ongoing matters
- Blackstone in its strategic alliance with Wellington and Vanguard to collaborate on developing multi-asset investment solutions to integrate public and private markets as well as active and index strategies
Bissie also serves as Secretary of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Investment Management Regulation.
Bissie received her J.D. in 2013 from the Columbia Law School and her B.A. in 2010 from Georgetown University. She is admitted to practice in New York.