Proskauer’s Registered Funds & Retail Alternatives Group offers comprehensive counsel for managers of regulated funds. We represent business development companies (BDCs), registered closed-end funds (including interval funds and tender offer funds), their sponsors, independent board members, investment advisers, and other service providers. The scope of our work keeps us close to emerging issues and gives us perspective on the matters shaping the investment management industry.
Our multidisciplinary team advises clients across the full fund lifecycle, drawing on the Firm's wider funds, regulatory, transactional, tax, and disputes capabilities to provide practical, business-oriented counsel.
We advise on:
- fund formation and capital raising
- governance and compliance (including board representation)
- strategic transactions, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions
- continuation vehicles
- exemptive relief applications and SEC examinations
- private litigation and enforcement matters
- tax compliance
