Practice
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RK&O’s investment management practice provides a wide range of services to market participants. We are particularly well known for our expertise in the hedge fund, private equity and distressed asset trading communities.
Experience
Matters on which we have worked include representations of or advice to:
- The purchaser of a significant minority stake in a privately held hedge fund complex, including advice on control rights and Investment Advisers Act issues.
- A hedge fund sponsor in the structuring, documentation and marketing process for a newly formed distressed credit fund.
- A seed capital provider in the establishment and funding of a Brazilian private equity fund.
- Several major hedge funds in connection with year-end redemptions, including the formation of special purpose vehicles to liquidate assets on behalf of withdrawing limited partners.
- Numerous hedge funds with respect to cross-trading, conflicts and other compliance-related issues under the Investment Advisers Act.
- Hedge funds and other investors concerning compliance with Sections 13 and 16 of the Securities Exchange Act.
- Hedge funds and former principals in the establishment and funding of split-off investment funds.
- Institutional investors in connection with an SEC investigation of a hedge fund manager and a petition for the involuntary winding up of a hedge fund in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.