Kristin Hinson Bio

Kristin Hinson is a partner in the Investment Funds Group. She focuses her practice on private investment funds and funds of funds, investment adviser registration and compliance, unregistered offshore private investment funds, and private equity funds. Before joining Alston & Bird, Kris was a partner at an Am Law 50 firm. She is a member of the American Bar Association and the North Carolina Bar Association, and is also a member of the New York Bar Association and the Mecklenburg County Bar Association. Kris is a founding member of the Alternative Investment Group of the Carolinas (AIGC), a not-for-profit networking organization for alternative investment professionals in North and South Carolina. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the areas of banking, corporate law, derivatives, private funds, and structured finance. Kris received her B.A. in 1988 from Southern Methodist University and her J.D., cum laude, in 1992 from Tulane University Law School.