Investment Management

Our Investment Management practitioners are located in our New York; San Francisco; Washington, DC; Chicago; Los Angeles; and London offices.

Our Practice

Private Funds. We represent established and emerging investment management clients, including US registered investment advisers and commodity trading advisors, banks, UK and other AIFMs, and other sponsors and managers of alternative investment funds. Types of investment products that our clients sponsor or manage include US domestic, EU and offshore hedge funds, private equity funds, venture capital funds, real estate funds, distressed debt funds, impact investment funds, funds of funds, commodity pools, common trust funds and collective investment funds.

Advisory Firms and Family Offices. We also represent wealth advisory firms and family offices on a broad range of regulatory and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions of registered investment advisers.

Institutional Investors. We advise institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, government plans and endowments, on the legal aspects of their private equity, real estate, and alternative investment fund and special account investments and co-investments.

Regulatory Matters. We help our clients manage regulatory issues and respond to rapidly evolving legal environments in the world's major financial markets. This includes coordination with colleagues in our firm's Financial Services and Broker-Dealer practices, who provide a full range of services to banks, trust companies, broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries.

Futures, Swaps and Other Derivatives. Other related practices involve the representation of futures commission merchants, swap dealers, and end users of swaps and other derivatives with respect to a broad range of regulatory and transactional matters. We also advise exchanges and clearing houses.

Management Entity Formation and Related Legal Matters. We help structure investment management and advisory firms and advise them in the structuring and day-to-day operation of their businesses. This work includes drafting the agreements among the owners of the firms, and the terms of any seed investment. Our employment and benefits team assists with carried interest and other management and portfolio company compensation arrangements. In addition, we have a well-established private client practice that provides a comprehensive array of tax, trusts and estates, and personal wealth management services to high net worth individuals and their families, including portfolio managers and partners of alternative investment advisers.

Full-Service Approach

Comprehensive Coverage. We serve the global investment management industry by providing a full range of legal services to US, UK, EU and other international private and other alternative investment funds, investment managers, institutional investors, fund distributors, and service providers, including services relating to fund formation and tax structuring, impact funds and other ESG investing considerations, management group structuring, investor relations and representations, ownership and compensation arrangements, prime brokerage documentation, customer documentation, compliance policies or procedures, fund regulation and compliance across multiple regimes, and secondary purchases and sales of interests in funds.

Full Spectrum Fund Classes and Strategies. We advise US, EU and other international clients across the full spectrum of their respective onshore and offshore alternative investment funds and corresponding strategies, with a primary focus on hedge, venture capital, private equity, real estate, hybrid, geographic and industry-focused funds.

Unique Understanding. Our experience on both sides of the manager-investor equation gives us deep insight into market trends, developments, and terms and conditions—and how to best execute them.

Critical Connections. Established relationships throughout the investment management community enable us to work effectively with fund service providers and around issues that other firms find problematic.

Seamless and Efficient Service. Immediate access to our leading international tax, M&A, capital markets, financing, litigation and regulatory lawyers means we efficiently provide solutions to challenging issues.

Global Solutions. Our multidisciplinary approach and global capabilities well position us to provide guidance across geographies, including Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America, and help our clients accomplish their business and investment management goals on a global scale.