Alana C. St. Aude is Vice President and Senior Counsel for Private Credit in Goldman Sachs Asset and Wealth Management where she leads legal coverage of private credit transactions, with a focus on direct lending, senior, subordinated, unitranche and mezzanine loans, equity co-investments, preferred equity and fund formation matters, along with other complex structuring and financing transactions for middle market and large cap private equity sponsored companies.

Alana also has experience as in-house counsel for Capital One's Commercial Bank where she was lead counsel for technology, media, telecom (TMT) leveraged finance, with additional support of financial institutions group (FIG), and as a Banking & Finance Associate Attorney at the law firms of Weil Gotshal and Paul Weiss.

Alana is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Advancement Initiative, an organization of mid-career women of color attorneys both in-house and at outside law firms. Alana was selected as a Leadership Council for Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow for 2021, a 92Y Women in Power Fellow for 2020 and has been recognized as a Top 10-30 Somethings Award recipient for the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and Top 40 Under 40 by The Network Journal.