Nicole J. Macarchukis is the Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Head of Asset Management Legal at Fidelity. Previously, she was a partner at Dechert, LLC., and served as Angel Island Capital Management’s Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel before that. Prior to that, Nicole was a Managing Director and General Counsel of Public Markets at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., including KKR Credit Advisors (US) LLC and KKR Financial Holdings LLC. Earlier in her career, Nicole was Co-General Counsel of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, responsible for the firm’s global private equity, energy, and transactional business groups and initiatives, as well as the U.S. public distressed debt, structured products, and public equity business units concerning transactional matters. Before joining Och-Ziff, Nicole was counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP and O’Sullivan LLP, focusing on private equity transactions and fund formation, and an associate at White & Case, focusing on banking and corporate credit transactions. Nicole received a BA in Economics from Fordham University and a JD, cum laude, from Fordham University Law School.