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Richard A. Goldman

Partner

Richard A. Goldman represents US and international hedge funds and funds of funds, advising them on a broad range of issues, including fund formation, product structuring, strategic and seed capital arrangements, management company agreements, and all types of regulatory and compliance issues. The co-chair of the firm’s global hedge fund practice, Rich also represents private equity managers in the formation of their funds and institutional investors.

Extended Profile

Rich also regularly advises clients on registration as investment advisers with the SEC, structuring portfolio transactions and establishing separate accounts. Rich advises endowments and other institutional investors in connection with structuring and negotiating their investments in private funds.

He is the founder of the Boston Hedge Fund Group, an organization for chief financial officers, chief operating officers, general counsel and other senior legal, accounting, and compliance professionals involved with hedge funds in the greater Boston area. Rich is also a lecturer at Boston University’s Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, teaching a course on hedge funds in the LL.M. program.

Before joining Morgan Lewis, Rich was a partner in the investment management practice of another international law firm, where he was the co-chair of their global investment management practice. He was also the general counsel and chief operating officer for a hedge fund manager. He has been ranked for several years by Chambers USA as a leading attorney in the hedge funds industry in Massachusetts, national, and global business law guides, as well as listed in Legal 500 US. 

selected representations

  • Established 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, emerging market and micro-finance
  • Structured and negotiated numerous seed capital investments, including for a significant institutional investor
  • Established private equity funds focused on investing in private companies and in RMBS, as well as to co-invest with hedge funds
  • Established a managed account platform for an international firm
  • Sold pre-eminent investment management company to a financial institution
  • Launched several insurance-dedicated funds of funds, including a bank eligible fund
  • Negotiated complex agreements with prime brokers and trading counterparties
  • Launched funds for a Dubai based investment manager focused on investing in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region

Education

  • University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1982, Bachelor of Business Administration, Accounting
  • University of Virginia School of Law, 1988, Juris Doctor

Admissions

  • Massachusetts

Awards and Affiliations

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Asset Management, Law360 (2017)

Ranked, Investment Funds: Hedge Funds, USA, Chambers Global (2012–2014, 2016–2019)

Ranked, Investment Funds: Hedge Funds, Nationwide, Chambers USA (2011–2019)

Band 1: Hedge & Mutual Funds, Massachusetts, Chambers USA (2012–2019)

Ranked, Hedge & Mutual Funds, Massachusetts, Chambers USA (2008–2011)

Recommended, Investment fund formation and management: Alternative/hedge funds, The Legal 500 US (2017–2019) 

Recommended, Investment fund formation and management: Private equity funds, The Legal 500 US (2012, 2014–2016)

Recognized, Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, Boston, The Best Lawyers in America (2015–2019)

Recognized, Securities/Capital Markets Law, Boston, The Best Lawyers in America (2013–2019)

Lawyer of the Year, Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law, The Best Lawyers in America (2017)

Recognized, Who’s Who Legal (2016)

Member, Boston Bar Association

Editor-in-Chief, Virginia Tax Review

Publications

6/13/2017 - Tenth Annual Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices, Part 3: Latest Updates on Hedge Fund Terms

6/9/2016 - Ninth Annual Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices, Part 3: Current Institutional Investor/Manager Terms: Side Letter Issues and Developments

9/18/2015 - BE-180 Deadline Approaching: Fund Managers, Private Funds, and Registered Investment Companies May Be Required to File

6/25/2015 - BEA Indicates That It Will Grant Extensions for Filing Be-10 Until August 31, 2015

5/29/2015 - Deadline for Filing BE-10 Has Been Extended for New Filers

5/19/2015 - Deadline for Filing BE-10 Approaches for Private Funds and Private Fund Managers

4/21/2015 - Eighth Annual Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices, Part 9: Co-Invest Structures and Issues, Seeding Managers and Hedge Fund Trends

11/25/2013 - 2013 Recommended Annual Review for Hedge Fund and Other Private Fund Advisers

12/4/2012 - Recommended Annual Review for Hedge Fund and Other Private Fund Advisers

8/31/2012 - SEC Proposes Amendments to Rule 506 to Permit General Solicitation and General Advertising by Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds and Other Private Funds

2/13/2012 - Massachusetts Adopts New Regulations for Private Fund Advisers

4/28/2011 - Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth Proposes New Regulations on Use of Expert Networks and Private Funds Exemption

2/2/2011 - More Reporting and Registering for Investment Advisers, CPOs and CTAs: SEC and CFTC Propose New Form PF and CFTC Proposes to Rescind/Limit Certain Exemptions

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News

6/7/2018 - Morgan Lewis Hosts 11th Annual Hedge Fund Conference in New York, 4th Annual in Boston

6/7/2017 - Morgan Lewis to Host 2017 New York, Boston Hedge Fund Conferences

6/8/2016 - Morgan Lewis to Host 2nd Annual Boston Hedge Funds Conference

Events

6/13/2019 - 2019 Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices Conference: Manager and Investor Perspectives – Boston

6/11/2019 - 2019 Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices Conference: Manager and Investor Perspectives

5/9/2019 - 2019 Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Funds and Other Alternative Funds Conference – San Francisco

5/7/2019 - 2019 Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Funds and Other Alternative Funds Conference – Chicago

10/4/2018 - 2018 Annual Private Fund Investors Roundtable

6/12/2018 - 2018 Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices Conference: Manager and Investor Perspectives

5/8/2018 - 2018 Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices Conference: Manager and Investor Perspectives – Chicago

6/15/2017 - 2017 Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices Conference: Manager and Investor Perspectives – Boston

6/13/2017 - 2017 Morgan Lewis Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices Conference: Manager and Investor Perspectives

3/7/2017 - 2017 SEC Examination & Enforcement Trends Road Show – Boston

12/1/2016 - EY Global Hedge Fund Symposium – Boston

9/21/2016 - 2016 Annual Private Fund Investors Roundtable

6/14/2016 - Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices: Manager and Investor Perspectives

6/9/2016 - Ninth Annual Advanced Topics in Hedge Fund Practices: Manager and Investor Perspectives

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