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Timothy P. Selby

Partner


Tim Selby focuses his practice on advising clients with respect to the structuring, formation and management of hedge funds, publicly offered and privately placed commodity pools, and private equity funds. He represents a broad range of clients, employing a wide variety of alternative investment strategies, from well-established institutions to experienced fund managers that have decided to venture out on their own.

In addition, he is a licensed CPA who is often called upon by clients to provide advice with respect to compliance with exemptions from the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Commodity Exchange Act, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, SEC and CFTC regulations, and NFA and NASD rules.

He is listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, where he is recognized for his expertise in the hedge fund and managed futures sectors. In the 2010 edition of the Chambers publication, Tim is praised as a lawyer who is “so up on the subject that he can give you an answer immediately."

Representative Experience

  • Assisted a U.S. fund manager in connection with the public offering of a private equity fund focused on investing in India cross-border transactions that is publicly offered on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in the United Kingdom.
  • Counsel to the managed futures group of a major investment bank in connection with the formation of multi-tiered commodity pools.
  • Counsel to the asset management group of a major investment bank in connection with the formation of a global macro master-feeder fund.
  • Counsel to an independent investment adviser in connection with the structure and formation of a master-feeder fund and parallel 3(c)(1) vehicle.
  • Represent a commodity pool operator in connection with the public offering of interests in a commodity pool.


Publications
March/April 2009
"Asset Managers' Committee and Investors' Committee Release Final Reports on Best Practices for Hedge Fund Industry," MFA Reporter, March/April 2009.

Timothy P. Selby

90 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016-1387
Phone: 212-210-9494
Fax: 212-922-3894

Education

  • St. John's University
    (J.D., 1993)
  • Iona College
    (M.B.A., 1990)
  • Iona College
    (B.B.A., 1987)

Admitted to Practice

  • New York