Paulita Pike

Investment Industry Attorney, Law Professor, Champion of the Arts

Paulita Pike is the managing partner of the Chicago office of Ropes & Gray LLP. She represents mutual funds and their boards as well as investment advisers throughout the country, and works with such industry leaders as Invesco, Prudential, Northern Trust, Jackson National and Calamos. She also shapes the next generation of legal minds by serving as an adjunct professor of law at Northwestern Pritzker law school and the University of Notre Dame law school.

Passionately devoted to the arts, Paulita has served on the executive committee and as president of the auxiliary board of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has also served as a Trustee of the Art Institute. Paulita also is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, having served as the immediate past treasurer and chair of its finance committee. She also serves on the Theater’s executive committee.

Paulita received her juris doctor and her B.A. in government and international studies from the University of Notre Dame.