TAMARA SOLEYMANI focuses her practice on private alternative investment funds -- their structuring, management, and related corporate and regulatory matters. Prior to joining Sidley, Tamara was a Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) Graduate Fellow at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law -- Bluhm Legal Clinic Complex Civil Litigation and Investor Protection Center. Tamara graduated cum laude from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, where she served as an executive articles editor of the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy . She earned her B.A., cum laude , in government and politics and psychology from the University of Maryland and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa during her junior year.