Nick Tonckens works on corporate matters, in particular the formation, marketing and closing of a variety of private investment funds including private equity, debt, venture capital and hedge funds.

Nick assists asset managers, private funds and investment advisers with transactional, regulatory compliance and securities law matters. 

During law school, Nicholas interned with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York Criminal Division. He served as a managing student editor for Just Security, an online national security forum; as a legal fellow with the Policing Project; and as a research assistant for Professor Barry Friedman, conducting research on the federal government’s role in police reform. Nicholas was also a student scholar with the Reiss Center on Law & Security, conducting research on issues of law and national security, and interned with Access Now, working on global privacy issues. He previously worked as a program manager for The Mentor Group, a legal research institute in Boston.

Background

Education

  • J.D., New York University School of Law, 2022
    • President, National Security Law Society
    • Executive Editor, N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change
    • Managing Student Editor, Just Security
    • Events Chair, American Constitution Society
  • A.B., cum laude, Government & Legal Studies and Russian, Bowdoin College, 2016
    • Russian Scholar Laureate
    • Sarah & James Bowdoin Scholar
    • Editor-in-Chief, The Bowdoin Globalist

Bar Admissions

  • New York, 2023

Languages

  • Russian
  • French