Shana Ramirez

Shana Ramirez

Partner
Head of West Coast Fund Finance
Shana is everything you'd want in legal counsel. She's great to work with personality wise, knowledgeable, experienced, responsive and efficient.
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About

Shana Ramirez's multi-disciplined practice spans deals ranging from multibillion-dollar, broadly syndicated credit facilities to smaller, bilateral loans. She has represented public companies, leading financial institutions, investment banks, private equity funds, and private debt providers in a wide range of secured and unsecured financings, including various types of fund-level financings, acquisition financings, restructurings, and recapitalizations.

Her extensive experience in fund finance includes representation of both borrowers and lenders across multiple sectors, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and private credit. Shana's broad experience includes:

  • Capital call and subscription line credit facilities
  • Net asset value (NAV) – based facilities
  • Hybrid facilities
  • Management fee credit lines
  • Fund guarantees and other forms of credit support for portfolio investments

Shana's experience in both fund and portfolio level financings provides her with a unique perspective of the market that her clients rely on for their various financing needs.

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She is highly knowledgeable and aware of nuances to documenting fund finance and sponsor finance transactions.
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

Chambers USA

  • Up and Coming, California, Banking and Finance, (2024 – 2025)

The Legal 500 United States

  • Recommended, Commercial Lending: Advice to Direct Lenders/Private Credit, (2025)
  • Recommended, Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders, (2025)
Education
  • J.D., University of Michigan Law School
  • B.A., Pennsylvania State University
    cum laude
    Phi Beta Kappa

Seminars

  • Speaker, "13th Annual Global Fund Finance Symposium," Fund Finance Association, February 26 – 29, 2024
  • Speaker, "Lending to Private Credit Funds: ABL, Mezzanine and Other Facilities, Rated Notes, Partner Loans," Strafford, November 8, 2023

Prior Experience

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Shana Ramirez was a partner at a major AmLaw 100 international law firm where she headed the firm's fund finance practice.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Member, Fund Finance Association
  • Board of Directors, Public Counsel
  • Member, Women in Fund Finance

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