The Breach Family Foundation and Michigan Law alumnus David A. Breach, chief operating officer and chief legal officer of Vista Equity Partners, have committed $5 million to the University of Michigan Law School to permanently endow the David A. Breach Deanship.
The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved the establishment of the David A. Breach Deanship at its Dec. 3 meeting.
The gift creates an endowed fund to ensure, once fully invested, that current and future deans of Michigan Law will have unrestricted support in perpetuity to advance key priorities and embrace emerging opportunities.
Pending approval by the board of regents, Michigan Law School Dean Mark D. West, the Nippon Life Professor of Law, will serve as the inaugural “David A. Breach Dean of Law.”
For the remainder of his deanship, West will dedicate the funds generated by the gift to support racial justice initiatives at Michigan Law.
The Breach family has a history of philanthropy at Michigan Law. In 2017, Breach and his wife, Emily, established the David A. and Emily A. Breach Law School Scholarship Fund with a $1 million gift to support students who have a socioeconomically disadvantaged background or who enter law school already having loans.
Breach joined Vista Equity Partners in 2014 and serves as its chief operating officer and chief legal officer and is a member of its private equity funds investment committees.
He previously was a senior corporate partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where his practice focused on the representation of private equity funds in all aspects of their business.
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