DL‘s Alternative Investment Practice Group constitutes the firm’s cornerstone international service offering to funds, asset managers, dealers, intermediaries, and investors.

The Alternative Investment Practice Group advises clients in the formation and operation of all types of alternative investment vehicles, including hedge funds, funds of funds, commodity pools, venture capital, private equity and real estate funds, as well as other private investment platforms.

In addition to having organized and providing ongoing representation to hundreds of investment funds and managers, the firm also advises US and international brokers, dealers, electronic market platforms, and banks. We provide a full range of legal services to our investment industry clients, comprising advice on legal structuring and other formation issues (including master-feeder, side-by-side and umbrella fund structures), securities, commodities and derivatives regulation, business term alternatives, marketing arrangements, ISDA and other trading documentation, exchange listing, international tax planning, and ERISA matters. Areas of specialty include:

Managed Futures and CTA’s.

Private Equity and Venture Capital.

Institutional Investors and Service Providers.

Derivatives.