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Experience
Lennine Occhino is a member of the ERISA and Private Investment Fund practices. Since joining the firm in 1988, Lennine has concentrated exclusively in the pension investment area, advising on the structuring and offering of alternative investment vehicles of all types to ERISA and government plans and other institutional investors, including onshore and offshore hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds, group trusts, bank collective trusts, insurance company separate accounts, REMICs and REITs.
Lennine also advises plan sponsors, trustees, investment managers, and other fiduciaries with respect to their fiduciary obligations and compliance procedures. She has extensive experience representing clients in connection with Department of Labor prohibited transaction exemption and advisory opinion requests, as well as audits and enforcement actions brought by the Department of Labor.
Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Lennine was an Assistant Dean and Lecturer at DePaul University College of Law (1985-1988) and a research attorney at the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility (1982-1984).
Education
Yale Law School, LLM, 1987; Associate Editor, Yale Journal of International Law DePaul University, JD, with honors, 1982; DePaul Law Review, Lead Articles Editor University of Wisconsin, BA, with honors and distinction in major, 1978
Admitted
US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1982
US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1982
Illinois, 1982 | 