Victoria Portnoy

Victoria Portnoy is a Managing Director in the Chief Legal Office and Head of Corporate Finance and Group Legal Affairs.

Before joining Blackstone in 2015, Ms. Portnoy practiced securities law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, where she represented public and private corporations, underwriters and private equity sponsors in a wide range of capital markets and financing transactions and corporate governance and SEC matters.

Ms. Portnoy received a BA, magna cum laude, from Columbia University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a JD, magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Symposium Editor for the Annual Survey of American Law.

Education

• Juris Doctor New York University School of Law (2009 — 2012)
• BA Columbia University in the City of New York (2005 — 2009)
• High School Diploma Stuyvesant High School (2001 — 2005)

Companies

• Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Finance and Group Legal Affairs Blackstone (2021)
• Head of Corporate Finance and Group Legal Affairs Blackstone (2020 — 2020)
• Vice President, Chief Legal Office Blackstone (2017 — 2020)
• Director, Chief Legal Office The Blackstone Group (2015 — 2016)
• Associate Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (2012 — 2015)
• Teaching Fellow NYU Stern School of Business (2011 — 2012)
• Summer Associate Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (2011 — 2011)
• Torts Teaching Assistant to Professor Catherine Sharkey NYU School of Law (2010 — 2010)
• Legal Intern United States Attorney's Office - Eastern District of New York - Civil Division (2010 — 2010)