Jessie M. Gabriel

Founder, All Places

(she/her/hers)

In 2020, Jessie stepped down as head of a Big Law investment funds practice to launch All Places, a law firm inspired by the statement by RBG that, “women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” They believe the most critical factor to achieving that goal is for women to have equal representation in the ownership and management of capital. All Places provides legal support and strategic advice to female-led startups, female fund managers, and companies led by men aligned with our mission. All Places provides full-service corporate legal work: from launching a company or fund, to planning and documenting fundraising, to negotiating major contracts, to growing your team and protecting your intellectual property. Their clients include women-led funds like Supply Change Capital, SoGal Ventures, MPowered Capital, Recast Capital, L2 Point, Turning Rock, and Growth Warrior Capital, and female-led startups like Omsom, Rosy, Dotdat, One Potato, Harlow, west~bourne, and Táche.  

Jessie started her career in economics, working first at a consulting firm before moving to a major think tank. As a lawyer, she has worked at some of the country’s most prestigious firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore and BakerHostetler, where she was the youngest woman to lead her own team and launched the firm’s Investment Funds practice. Her clients have ranged from Fortune 10 companies to trailblazing pre-seed startups, and have included numerous women-founded private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds. Jessie serves as an advisor to Mercer regarding their Leap mandate and to First Women’s Bank of Chicago, and sits on the Boards of the New America Alliance, an organization that advocates for the Latinx asset management community, and New Destiny Housing, which builds permanent, beautiful, affordable housing for families that have survived domestic violence. 

Jessie received her B.A. in economics from Dartmouth College and her J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif, won the Campbell Moot Court Competition, and served as Executive Editor of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law.