Lourdes M. Lopez-Isa

Meet Lourdes

Lourdes is the lead attorney responsible for the review and negotiation of all private equity, real estate, and hedge fund investments for Strategic’s clients, as well as Strategic’s commercial contracts. In addition to her legal responsibilities, Lourdes is also involved in various creative and innovative initiatives across the firm, including, serving as a member of Strategic’s Editorial Committee, and as the Co-Creator and Co-Developer of Strategic’s sister website, OCIO.org, an educational website dedicated to advancing the Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) model. 

Lourdes previously worked for Strategic from 1996-2001 as General Counsel and rejoined the firm in 2015. In the interim, she served in senior legal positions for various investment advisory firms, including Emerging Markets Management and Ashmore Equities Investment Management. Before that, she was an associate at WilmerHale and served as a Judicial Clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Lourdes holds a J.D. with honors from the Harvard Law School where she was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale College, summa cum laude. She has been admitted to the legal bars of New York and the District of Columbia.