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We launch the spectrum of offshore offering structures to our clients attracting both US and offshore investors streamlining the process across the spectrum of strategies and offering structures on a viable basis applying our years or experience, expertise and offshore relationships.

We form the spectrum of exempt reporting, SEC and state registered investment advisers on federal and state level across investment and commodity trading advisers driven by each client’s facts and circumstances.  Alternative options and offering structure drive the analysis across SEC, state, exemptions, etc. and regulatory build out.  We support clients across compliance, operations, regulatory and risk management regulatory build-out framework.

For pioneer portfolio manager launching to support master – feeder structure, a stand alone fund driven by tax and risk management issues, a key consideration when launching a new strategy.  This strategy will invest in mutual funds with a focus on equities under a successful quantitative strategy.

Pioneer portfolio manager, of such firms as BNP Paribas, AQR and Magnetar Capital.  Executed fund formation, corporate governance, asset raising, marketing and private fund advisor build-out and on-going support leading to the growth of its successful U.S. strategy specializing in closed end trading funds across teams and people managing assets across high net worth, family offices and institutional investors.

Formerly one of the largest traders of a convertible arbitrage strategy.  Enterprise level diagnostic review, gap analysis, recommendation report in connection with a number of U.S. and offshore funds, equity funds, registered investment advisers, operations and compliance framework across its enterprise. Objective to increase efficiencies, create robust best practices infrastructure and materially reduce risk, legacy costs to attract and win new institutional assets.  Also, engaged across new fund offerings (onshore-offshore), marketing, operations, fractional General Counsel and COO support to execute goal.

Co-founded catastrophic bond and reinsurance onshore and offshore master-feeder and advisory firm organization to facilitate catastrophic bond and reinsurance strategy. Collaborated with re-insurance portfolio manager and well known reinsurance firm and strategic seed investor to facilitate pragmatic growth and help win institutional assets from leading Qualified Institutional Buyers with $100 million or more of net worth.

Engaged by well known New York City law firm to collaborate and provide private fund expertise to a Swedish based private fund manager in connection with U.S. sub-advisory relationship to manage a reinsurance strategy for a large US alternative asset manager represented by global private fund manager law firm.

For a global asset management managing the largest fixed income strategies in Asia, our Managing Partner executed the strategy and spectrum of offshore structures, teams and people to provide both strategic and execution support to client’s CEO and CIO across a global best practices infrastructure of fund formation, compliance framework, operational risk management, legal and marketing framework managing relevant teams and people for a global fund of funds platform managed by several SEC investment and commodity advisers managing AUM in excess of 10 billion.  Our Managing Partner worked closely as a trusted adviser to the CEO across marketing and business strategy and the coordinated execution of numerous private funds and managed accounts for a global fund of funds business.

Launched an offshore start-up master-feeder structure into existing US stand-alone fund to accommodate institutional investor’s substantial investment.  BVI tax blocker entity and availability for investment within a four-week time frame.    Although this type of offering structure may typically takes 6-8 weeks, as a highly experienced and nimble law firm, we satisfied client need to make it happen for investor assets applying viable and practical know how collaborating with offshore counter-parties.

For US commercial real estate fund, executed multi-layered offshore and onshore master feeder structure and reorganized existing investment manager organization from segregated series platform to its own master-feeder structure.  Prepared robust offering memoranda and structure for client organization to mitigate cost and facilitate independent offerings to its US and offshore  investors.

For US hedge/private equity hybrid manager reorganized BVI segregated series structure to increase operational and legal efficiencies and transfer of US and offshore assets into new BVI master-feeder structure to improve economic and legal efficiencies.

Client requested gap analysis for pre-existing registered CPO and CTA firm to become investor ready across offering structures for onshore-offshore investors.

Texas based Commodity Trading Adviser & Pool Registered with the NFA.  For U.S. manager executed stand alone structure and filed for approval NFA compliant offering structure in connection with a managed futures strategy and framework and to offer same to Qualified Persons through its registration offering process with the NFA.

For a well established multi-strategy private fund investment advisory firm managed by former manager of Wellington Asset Management, collaborated with CFO on firm wide gap analysis across private fund offerings & organizational framework to materially reduce legacy costs and augment solicitation strategy geared toward institutional investors for its multiple hedge fund, private equity and managed accounts.

For well established private equity loan origination strategy and firm, engaged to collaborate with CEO to provide diagnostic review, compliance gap analysis, recommendations and execute solutions to attract assets post conversion from a conventional closed end private equity fund  to an open ended hedge fund structure.