Sandra K. Wilburn

Sandra Wilburn advises fund managers on developing and executing fund offerings, managing ongoing operations, and structuring management companies and general partners, including architecting incentive compensation arrangements for investment professionals. She guides institutional investors, state pension plans, investment managers, private funds and others on investments in private equity, venture capital, hedge funds and alternative assets. Sandra regularly assists in secondary portfolio sales of private equity interests and represents buyers and sellers in the secondary market. She is the editor of the firm’s Private Fund Insights blog.

In her intellectual property and licensing practice, Sandra counsels clients on software licensing, technology development and IP matters, primarily in health care and life sciences, while advising on domestic and international data privacy laws.

Before joining Robinson Bradshaw, Sandra was an attorney at K&L Gates. Previously, she was a sales executive providing technology consultation to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies in DNA sequencing, laboratory robotics and analytic software across research and clinical development. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

• The Best Lawyers in America, One to Watch, corporate, intellectual property, leveraged buyouts and private equity, 2022-26
• North Carolina Super Lawyers, Rising Star, securities and corporate finance, 2023-24

• North Carolina Bar Association
• National Association of Public Pension Attorneys
• Licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office