Schulte Roth & Zabel represented Miravast Asset Management, LLC (“Miravast”), a vertically integrated asset management company with over $1 billion in assets under management, in the closing of $346,050,000 in commitments in Miravast ILS Credit Opportunities II LP (the “Fund”).   

The Fund is the second vintage of Miravast’s flagship offering that focuses on life contingent assets, chiefly life settlements. The Fund features a global investor base that includes public and private pensions and insurance companies.  

The Schulte team was led by partners Stephanie Breslow, Co-Head of the Investment Management Group and Daniel Blumenthal and included associate Michael Jaroslawicz. Partners Thomas Weinberger and Stephen Schauder represented the Fund on matters relating to life settlements. 

Schulte Roth & Zabel is pleased to announce that after a rigorous application process, the Pro Bono Committee has selected Sabrina Singh as the 2024 Brooks Burdette Fellow. While continuing to receive full pay and benefits as a Schulte employee, Sabrina will be fully embedded for six months Partners in Health (“PIH”).  

For over three decades, PIH has fought injustice by providing care first to those who need it most. PIH delivers high-quality healthcare and social services in some of the poorest corners of the world. By partnering with local governments and communities to design and deliver public health programs, PIH has emerged as the global leader in delivering health services in poor and under-resourced settings.  

As the 2024 Fellow, Sabrina will support PIH in several ways, joining PIH’s small but mighty in-house legal team. The PIH legal team supports all PIH healthcare delivery and university sites across PIH’s global footprint. The Fellow reviews contracts and memorandums of understandings associated with PIH programs, responds to legal questions from the global PIH community, and reviews policies and procedures through the lens of regulatory compliance. The Fellow will assist with special projects, review and advise on new and evolving legal requirements affecting PIH sites, and work with donors and collaborators in support of PIH’s mission.  

Sabrina is a second-year real estate associate. Since Sabrina joined the firm in March 2022, Sabrina has worked with more than 13 pro bono clients, managing lease negotiations and real estate finance, construction finance, licensing and purchase and sales transactions, as well as working on amicus briefs, participating in immigration clinics and supporting survivors of domestic violence in their divorce proceedings. Sabrina received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in February 2022, where she began volunteering for the ACLU’s ICE Detention Center Bail Release Application Project, the Emmanuel Cancer Foundation and Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen. Prior to law school, Sabrina worked for Habitat for Humanity in Chile. 

About Brooks Burdette 

In 2009, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP created the Brooks Burdette Fellowship in honor of the late litigation partner who was a long-time chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and whose commitment to public interest work while at the firm was exemplary. Brooks was a board member of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and was the first chair of the Board of Democracy Prep, a Harlem charter school. 

In a powerful event for Pride Month and as part of the Schulte Speaker Series, the LGBTQ+ Affinity Group hosted the legendary transgender criminal defense attorney and civil rights activist Mia Yamamoto. Mia, who is celebrated for her trailblazing contributions to justice, served in the US Army from 1966 to 1968 with the 4th Infantry Division, USARV. For her distinguished military service, she was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, and Vietnam Service Medal. Since publicly coming out as transgender at the age of 60, Mia has committed herself to advocacy and representation for the transgender community, both legally in courtrooms and more broadly in society.

Introduced to the Schulte audience by Amy Leipziger, Director of the Free to be Youth Project at the Urban Justice Center, Mia candidly recounted her life story, shedding light on the experiences of transgender individuals facing gender oppression, familial rejection and anti-trans sentiment. Mia described her journey of becoming the first openly trans trial lawyer in the state of California. including affirming responses from many of her clients, judges and broader legal community.

Mia also discussed how civil rights movements benefit one another and urged us all to “stand up for each other” in the fight against inequity.

This event not only celebrated Mia’s remarkable contributions to both the LGBTQ+ community and society at large but also reinforced the importance of advocacy, representation and solidarity.

Read more about Mia here.

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