Associate

Marie Renée Cita is an associate in the New York office. She works on a wide range of corporate transactions, including M&A transactions, cross-border financings, fund financings, and other secured and unsecured debt structures, with a focus on impact investing and other innovative and impactful transactions.

Marie advises a range of international and domestic private equity and venture capital sponsors, portfolio companies and entrepreneurs in a range of complex corporate transactions with a focus on impact investing and innovative and impactful transactions.

Prior to joining the firm Marie was an associate attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Marie also has spent significant time in the public sector, including as a paralegal at the Federal Defenders of New York in the Eastern District of New York, where she assisted in the representation of indigent criminal defendants prior to attending law school.

Marie received her J.D. from Harvard Law School where she was lead article editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She received her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Yale University.

Marie is the author of U.S. Asylum Eligibility: Citizenship in the Dominican Republic, 50 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 255 (2015). She is a member of the New York State bar.

Education:

Harvard University, JD
Yale University, BA

Focus:

Debt Finance
Private Equity & Venture Capital
Impact Investing

Bar Admission:

New York