For more than 30 years, Alston & Bird has represented leading hedge fund managers and entrepreneurs, developing a variety of traditional and novel fund structures that allow managers to offer a variety of investment strategies. We’ve also represented institutional investors such as public and private pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations, funds of funds, corporate treasury departments, and family offices to evaluate and invest in hedge funds that will best help them achieve their investment goals. In the process, we’ve established enduring partnerships with key industry stakeholders, including allocators, placement agents, and brokers.
This experience has allowed us to work across multiple distribution platforms, including RIA networks, fintech marketplaces, tokenization, and wirehouse channels. We approach your fund structuring and capital-raising needs with both innovation and enthusiasm – advising on product development and strategic acquisitions. Our extensive knowledge of the industry, coupled with our firm’s full range of legal services and our comprehensive cross-border experience, means we’re able to anticipate and respond to changes in the marketplace, providing you with not only practical guidance but a competitive advantage. We’re also poised to help you manage compliance issues on fund operations matters. And we can assist you on tax, ERISA, anti-money laundering, and regulatory matters for both U.S. and non-U.S. investor bases.
We work on some of the industry’s largest hedge fund launches, including the negotiation of platform agreements with major wirehouses. We’ve helped clients offer novel investment opportunities, such as a bitcoin mining fund and a Shariah-compliant macros strategy . And we’ve advised a range of clients on both operational and compliance issues involved in building and maintaining portfolios of underlying fund investments. Our entrepreneurial approach makes us well suited to work with both established managers looking to offer a fund that is novel and new managers looking to leverage our considerable experience to launch a successful fund.