Hedge Fund Attorneys/Lawyers

Baker Donelson was ranked by The National Law Journal in 2007 as one of the 100 largest law firms in the country. Through strategic acquisitions and mergers over the past 100 years, Baker Donelson has grown to include more than 530 attorneys and public policy and international advisors. Baker Donelson\'s headquarters are centrally located in Memphis, Tennessee with offices throughout the Southeastern United States, as well as Washington, DC and Beijing, China. Our attorneys are licensed in over 30 jurisdictions, including NY & CA. Baker Donelson\'s alternative investment practice includes fund/adviser formation, on-going compliance advice, SEC/AML audit preparation and ERISA/tax matters, as well as expertise in broker/dealer matters.

Bressler, Amery & Ross is nationally recognized for its practice in the area of securities litigation and regulation. For over 30 years, we have represented financial institutions, individuals, investment and financial advisory firms, and investment funds and advisors before state and federal courts and regulatory bodies throughout the nation. Our clients include many of the leading national brokerage and clearing firms, as well as regional firms. The firm defends brokerage firms, hedge funds, hedge fund advisors and consultants, and associated persons in individual actions, class actions, and mass action litigation in state and federal courts and in arbitrations before the securities industry’s self-regulatory organizations and the American Arbitration Association. These cases include allegations such as misrepresentation, due diligence, fraud, unsuitability, churning, conflicts of interest involving firm research departments and individual research analysts, improper mutual fund sales practices, fraud in underwriting, and other similar issues. Despite our expertise in these areas, our practice extends well beyond litigation and arbitration. We represent firms and associated persons in connection with formal and informal regulatory and law enforcement inquiries and disciplinary proceedings before the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, state regulatory bodies, and state attorneys general. We advise our clients on internal policies and procedures designed to minimize the risk of litigation or regulatory inquiries and proceedings and assist with intercompany and industry agreements and disputes. We also provide advice in the formation and registration of broker-dealers, the transfer and ownership of existing firms, and firm and individual licensing with state regulatory agencies and FINRA.

Established in 2010, Capital Fund Law Group is a boutique alternative investment and securities law firm focused on investment funds, capital funding, private placement securities offerings, and RIAs. We're happy to help you with the formation of a hedge fund as a hedge fund attorney, and we can work closely with you on private placement attorney needs. We specialize in forming hedge funds and advising current hedge funds, as well as all necessary securities & investment regulations.

Cobb & Associates PC is a specialized boutique law firm devoted exclusively to serving the alternative investment community. The Firm’s business goal is to provide the breadth and expertise of a large firm across all key practice areas while offering the cost competitiveness, accessibility and flexible approach typically found only at smaller firms. The Firm is particularly active in furnishing legal and business advice to startup managers. The principal of the Firm, Jeffrey Cobb, has over 30 years’ experience in the investment management area, including 12 years at Schulte Roth & Zabel, where he was a partner. Clients are based both in the greater New York metropolitan area as well as nationwide and include over 200 hedge funds and offshore funds, funds of funds, registered investment advisers and broker-dealers. The Firm advises as to structuring and formation, agreements among principals, funding and marketing arrangements, securities law matters, federal and state taxation, ERISA issues, commodities regulation, Blue Sky registration and SEC and state registration and reporting matters, as well as providing ongoing compliance services, including, compliance manuals and guidance, mock audits and SEC examination issues. In addition, the Firm represents fund managers and other clients on legal matters affecting small businesses generally.

Riveles Law Group advises clients on a broad range of investment management, securities law and corporate matters. We have extensive experience representing hedge, private equity and forex funds in organizing and structuring private investment vehicles in both the U.S. and off-shore jurisdictions. The firm takes a holistic approach to fund formation taking a range of variables, including investor profile, strategy focus, liquidity expectations, current and future tax and regulatory compliance issues into consideration to collaboratively work with each manager to determine optimal fund structure. We guide managers throughout the formation and offering process to ensure the complex interplay between state, SEC, CFTC, NFA and NASD requirements are properly navigated. The firm also represents investment advisers, commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisers in all aspects of their business operations including state and federal registration, formation and licensing, implementation of industry ‘best practices’ policies and procedures, on-going regulatory compliance and issues relating to the delivery of advisory services. We offer the sophistication of big firm counsel combined with the responsiveness, in-depth knowledge and continuity of a small team of attorneys focused exclusively on your business. As a boutique practice we offer our clients flat fee pricing on many of the services we provide.

We take care to deliver the most economical and responsive representation for each client - typically performing quality legal services for approximately half the cost of other law firms. Although California-based, our client list, which spans the United States, includes hundreds of large and small investment advisers, onshore and offshore hedge fund managers and commodity pool operators. We invite you discuss our pricing and services before you settle on a more expensive legal solution.