Moses Singer represents the sponsors and managers of a wide range of private investment funds.  We provide legal guidance on the inception and management of specialty funds including:

• Domestic and offshore hedge funds
• Venture capital funds
• Real estate funds
• Opportunity funds
• Distressed debt funds
• Private equity funds
• Fund-of-funds

In addition to fund managers, we represent high net worth individuals and other sophisticated institutional investors in these types of funds.  Furthermore, financial institutions often retain us when making loans to funds or making loans to investors secured by its interest in funds.

Complex Agreements Relating to the Foundation of Private Funds

Moses Singer utilizes an inter-disciplinary approach that draws on our securities, corporate, banking, bankruptcy, tax, intellectual property, employment, ERISA and estate planning practices. Our Private Funds lawyers handle:

• The formation of private investment funds of all sizes and investment strategies
• The establishment of investment firms and advising on their operation, internal governance, employment and compensation issues, and regulatory compliance and filing
• Preparation of offering documents
• Advising on advertising and investment-raising activities
• Advising on the acquisition and sale of minority and majority stakes in fund sponsors as well as spinouts of fund businesses and management teams
• Representing buyers and sellers of portfolios of private fund interests in secondary transactions
• Counseling sponsors who are considering “public capital” alternatives
• Counseling sponsors for exit strategies, including portfolio companies’ initial public offerings
• Counseling Sponsors for their equity strategy as selling shareholders of publicly traded portfolio companies
• Structuring “non-fund” investment arrangements, such as managed accounts, for sponsors and/or small investor groups
• Creating employee co-investment schemes and advising on incentive arrangements
• Representing sovereign wealth funds, tax-exempt funds and institutional investors in connection with their investments in funds and participation in co-investments; and
• Advice in the financing of investment commitments

Moses Singer’s intellectual property and employment practices aid in protecting the intellectual property and human capital that can form a significant portion of the value of a fund and its portfolio companies.

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