Alex Nordholm is an experienced M&A and transactional lawyer, and an advisor to private businesses, investment managers, and family offices. As a transactional lawyer, he has extensive experience representing public companies in their strategic acquisition and investment programs, private equity sponsors in platform and roll-up acquisitions and dispositions, and investment managers and family offices in their transactional work. As an advisor, he leverages his unique breadth of experience to provide private businesses, investment managers, and family offices with advice regarding corporate structuring, capital formation, legal and business strategy, and day-to-day operations.
To begin his legal career, he practiced with several leading New York law firms, including Kirkland & Ellis’s market-leading private equity practice. He subsequently served as Chief Executive of a significant international family office, which has given him experience with a broad range of investment transactions from both a legal and investor perspective. Before entering legal practice, he worked at a major hedge fund in the New York City area.
Alex earned a B.S. from Vanderbilt University and received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Virginia Tax Review and a Managing Editor of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal. He earned an MBA at the Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business where he was a Fuqua Scholar (top 10% of the class). He holds the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) credential and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Jeremiah Program’s New York chapter.
