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Laurel FitzPatrick

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Business Law
Georgia, New York

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Practice Area

Business Law

Additional Practice Area

Corporate

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Georgia

New York

Professional Experience

Partner: Ropes & Gray; Current

: Current; Laurel has extensive experience in the investment management industry, including four years as a Partner and Associate General Counsel at Tiger Management LLC, a New York based registered adviser and hedge fund group. Prior to her tenure at Tiger, she spent six years as an associate at a large international firm dividing her time between the firm’s Investment Management and Capital Markets Groups. Laurel has extensive experience structuring and advising various types of investment funds, including domestic and offshore partnerships, limited liability corporations andoffshore corporations. In addition to fund formation, she assists clients in creating management company structures which provide appropriate incentives and succession strategies. Laurel has represented both "buyers" and "sellers" in strategic sales of interests in hedge fund management and GP entities and represents the hedge fund seed platform of several large investment clients. Much of Laurel’s experience involves advising clients concerning compliance with the Investment Advisers Act,the Investment Company Act, and the Securities and Exchange Act. In addition to fund formation, these matters include trade structuring and advice, meeting with regulators on behalf of clients, assisting clients with regulatory audits, obtaining exemptive and No-Action relief from the SEC and helping clients develop compliance and internal control procedures. She also assists clients in restructuring their funds when necessary, reviews and assists in structuring derivative products and assists funds in developing legal and risk management policies with respect to prime brokers and other counterparties.

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