Practice Description:

Co-founder of the law firm and Chair of the firm’s Financial Services, Private Funds and Capital Markets Group.

Concentration: Securities and futures regulation primarily in connection with private funds, hedge funds and private equity, investment advisers, commodity trading advisers, family offices, related tax matters, swaps and derivatives and corporate transactions (often cross border) involving the foregoing and hedge fund litigation. Representative clients include investment advisers, funds, institutional investors and family offices.

Publications:

Numerous papers, articles and publications with regard to issues facing the financial services industry, including author or contributor to the following:

 

• Putting Structures in Place (relating to carbon funds), Environmental Finance, September 2009
• Hedge Fund Regulatory Outlook for 2009, The Hedgefund Journal, February 2009
• Proposed EU Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers, GlobalNote, 2009
• How to Register as an Investment Adviser with the SEC, GlobalNote, 2009
• How to Start a Hedge Fund in the US, HFM Week Special Report 2008
• SEC Investment Adviser Registration for Hedge Fund Managers - The Private Fund Rule, February 2006
• Convergence of hedge funds and private equity funds, by Michael G Tannenbaum, February 2006
• "Lessons in Law for Advisers," appearing Structured Products Magazine, January 2006, dealing with the impact of the new SEC investment adviser rules on structured products.
• Co-author of " AIMA's Offshore Alternative Fund Directors' Guide", Alternative Investment Management Association, June 1, 2005;
• Final Rules to Require Certain Hedge Fund Managers to Register with the SEC
  GlobalNote, December 2004
• Compliance and Filing Requirements for Fund Managers that Are Registered Investment Advisers
  Memorandum, December 2004
• SEC Commissioners Approve Proposed Rules to Require Certain Hedge Fund Managers to Register with the SEC
  Bullet Point, October 27, 2004

Selected Recent Speaking Engagements and Appearances:

Co-Chair, panel presentation, EU Directive and Its Impact on the US Private Fund Industry, New York, NY, October 2009
SEC Hedge Fund Roundtable, presenter and speaker, Washington DC, 2001
IBA Annual Private Investment Funds Conference, Speaker, Moderator, various private fund topics, including gates, lock ups and liquidity events, London
GAIM USA, annual conference, Boca Raton, FL
GAIM Ops, offshore funds conference, Cayman Islands
Practicing Law Institute, annual hedge funds conference

Significant Recognition and Distinctions:

International Who’s Who of Private Fund Lawyers
Confidential Arbitrator with regard to complex hedge fund dispute
Arbitrator, National Futures Association, dispute resolution and business conduct resolution
Expert witness in selected matters