Kara draws from over 15 years of experience with SEC-registered investment advisers to oversee Cabot’s compliance program and legal activities. In addition to those legal responsibilities, Kara oversees Cabot’s Human Resources and Information Technology teams. She has managed compliance programs for registered investment advisers and counseled multiple private fund advisers through regulatory exams and investigations while in-house and in private practice. Before joining Cabot, she served as Counsel in Sidley Austin's Boston office and was a member of their Investment Funds, Advisers and Derivatives and Securities and Derivatives Enforcement and Regulatory practice groups, advising investment advisers offering real estate, credit, private equity and public equity strategies and funds. She also held legal and compliance positions at Glenview Capital Management and Neuberger Berman. She holds a JD from Brooklyn Law School and a BS in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.