About us
Boutique securities and corporate business matter law firm with a focus across: fund formation, venture capital, private equity and hedge funds from start-ups, established, registered, exempt throughout the life-cycle of a private fund manager. Attorneys with three decades of extensive in-house and public sector fund manager experience sets us apart. Pragmatic and viable corporate, securities law, business and operations expertise by private placement to IPO attorneys working at cutting edge New York City law firms to holding former titles as general counsel, chief operation and chief regulatory officers to global alternative asset management firms.
That "real world" depth distinguishes us: we understand your business as operators, not just as outside counsel, and we stay closely engaged with your transactions from inception through close. We are a true extension of the team, available, closely familiar with your specific portfolio and fund structure, and ready to move with urgency when transactions demand it. That is the model we operate.
We collaborate with CEOs, portfolio managers, CIOs,, COOs, CCOs, fund manager executives, consultancy firms, law firms and the spectrum of asset manager and trading organizations.
We brings decades of in-house, public sector, and institutional experience directly to bear on each client engagement — without the overhead, inefficiency, or junior associate hand-offs that characterize larger practices. Our streamlined structure eliminates unnecessary overhead, allowing us to deliver partner-caliber work at cost structures that are materially more competitive than large-firm alternatives.
Deep and broad expertise across the spectrum of investment vehicle formation and private fund securities offerings (onshore-offshore), sub-advisers, manager of managers, managed accounts, hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital offering structures, segregated series structures, ICAVs, UCITS, fund of funds, master-feeders, mini-masters, parallel, stand-alone, hybrid hedge/equity funds domiciled within and outside the United States, to name a few.
We work with all offering strategies such as: closed end funds, reinsurance, catastrophic bonds, insurance linked securities, long-short equities, market neutral, sector driven, managed futures(CTAs and CPOs) fixed income, global macro loan origination, real estate, swaps, bonds, index funds, macro, event driven, bonds, ISDA swaps, debentures, convertible arbitrage,. stat arb, vol arb, commodities, currencies (FX, G10-G7).
Investment and commodity adviser expertise (exempt or SEC registered), pooled fund formation and its front and back office trade, counter-party and regulatory operations, advisory firm build-out and growth, partner transactional matters, regulatory, operational and trade framework, counter-party set up, risk management, benchmark to best practices regulatory and compliance framework.
Investor and fund manager due diligence, asset raising methodology, marketing documentation, firm wide risk gap analysis to be investor ready and increase the likely-hood of marketing success with the high net worth, family office or institutional investors.
