Rich Goldman is co-head of hedge fund practice for the international law firm Bingham McCutchen, which has nearly 1,000 lawyers across 13 offices, spanning the US and across the major financial centres of the world. He represents US and international hedge funds and funds of funds, advising them on a broad range of issues including formation and structure, strategic and seed capital arrangements, succession planning, marketing and solicitation arrangements, separately managed accounts, and all types of trading and operational issues. He also regularly advises hedge fund clients on issues involving registration as investment advisers with the SEC, regulatory reporting and compliance matters, equity swaps and other derivatives, and private placements of securities.

He advises numerous US and non-US hedge funds and their managers, including EFG-Hermes, Harvard Management Company, Icahn Capital Management, Liberty Square Asset Management, Seneca Capital and Titan Advisors. Rich is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences on topics ranging from regulatory trends and succession planning to registration issues. Before joining Bingham from another law firm in Boston, Rich was general counsel and chief operating officer at Kobrick Capital Management, LP and Kobrick Funds LLC, hedge and mutual fund firms, respectively. He is a member of the Boston Bar Association and was admitted to practice in Massachusetts.

Representative matters:

• Launch of funds for a Dubai-based investment manager focused on investing in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region
• Establishment of numerous master-feeder and side-by-side structures in various jurisdictions focused on investing in a wide range of strategies including long-short equity, fixed income, high yield, distressed securities, arbitrage, loan origination, global macro, and emerging market
• Sale of preeminent investment management company to publicly traded company
• Establishment of private equity type funds to co-invest with hedge funds
• Structure and negotiation of numerous seed capital investments, including for a significant institutional investor
• Establishment of fund investing in micro-finance institutions around the world
• Establishment of insurance dedicated funds of funds, including a bank eligible fund
• Negotiation of complex agreements with prime brokers and trading counterparties.