Trends and Developments in Private Funds Regulation: What You Must Know and Do

Jonathan Levy is the Practice Leader of the firm's Investment Management Group. Jon advises investment managers, investment companies, and institutional investors on securities and corporate law. He also regularly advises private and public companies, as well as officers, directors, and shareholders, on a wide range of matters related to corporate and securities law. He has significant experience in investment management, public-company disclosure, public mergers and acquisitions and other change-in-control and strategic transactions.

Jon's investment management work encompasses organizing, registering, and structuring money-management firms and public and private investment companies, representing buyers and sellers on M&A transactions involving investment advisors and similar businesses and providing counsel on SEC, FINRA, and other regulatory-compliance matters, including preparing clients for inspections and defending them in enforcement actions.

Jonathan represents clients in a variety of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, fund formation and regulation, private equity investments, joint ventures, regulatory compliance and corporate governance.

Serving as chair of the firm's Private Equity practice group, Jonathan represents clients ranging from privately held industry leaders and publicly traded multinational companies to hedge funds and private equity firms. His private equity practice spans a broad variety of sectors including work for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and negotiating side letters for fund investors as well as the formation and regulation of investment funds.

He has extensive experience with representations and warranties insurance and a strong network in the industry, which he leverages on behalf of both financial and strategic buyers. Jonathan also advises clients on all aspects of entity formation, complex structured investment transactions and purchase of non-standard securitizable assets, and has substantial experience with the formation of private equity and hedge funds.