Our lawyers in this practice area have extensive professional experience, including:
- Represented a fund sponsor and advisor in its formation of a hedge fund trading in complex Korean equity and equity-based instruments.
- Counseled large South American-based private equity fund group in international restructuring and recapitalization matters.
- Represented well-known private equity fund sponsor in the formation of, and marketing of equity interests in, its North American and Latin American real estate funds, including a hotel fund and distressed commercial office fund.
- Advised the principal of a multi-family office in connection with the merger of his firm into a substantially larger investment operation.
- Represented a Dutch holding company in private equity investment in a manufacturer of gasifiers and the purchase of gasifiers.
- Served as fund co-counsel and counsel to the investment advisor in the formation of a venture capital fund investing in Mexican communications technology companies.
- Advised high net worth individuals and families entering into wealth-management agreements and investment management relationships with various institutional asset managers, such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase.
- Represented a registered investment adviser in connection with the lift-out of a trading team from an energy services firm.
- Represented a charitable foundation in its investment activities, including in the community banking sector, and in a fund formed to provide foreclosure relief.
- Advised founder and majority owner of an unregistered European investment adviser, in negotiations with minority investors to restructure equity and fee arrangements.
- Represented various private equity fund sponsors and limited partners in connection with secondary market transactions.
- Advised a marketing team in connection with its withdrawal from a third-party hedge fund and private equity distributor.
- Structured a proprietary industry expert program for research analysts, including mechanisms designed to preclude insider-trading violations.
- Served as fund counsel to an experienced advisor sponsoring a private equity fund to invest in clean and renewable electrical power generation and transmission assets.
- Advised an investment adviser in connection with closing a commodities-trading fund following an SEC investigation of one of the adviser’s principals.
- Advised on securities law aspects of secondary market transactions in publicly-traded US and non-US portfolio companies and private investments for special situation investments.
- Coordinated the establishment of representative offices and marketing operations in Tokyo for the asset management division of an investment bank and in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Tokyo for a global hedge fund.
- Represented a major Japanese conglomerate with respect to its US trust and fund administration business unit’s restructuring and review of its subscription agreements with major institutional hedge funds.
- Advised a European fund of funds in expanding the fund with new classes of shares offered to non-U.S.-retail investors in Asia, Australia and Latin America.