Investment Funds

Our Investment Funds Group provides services to a broad array of sophisticated clients across the asset management and financial services industries. Our practice is comprehensive, supporting private investment funds, registered investment companies and broker-dealers, as well as clients structuring, distributing, trading, investing in and hedging with derivatives and structured products. 

Our Alternative Investments Team represents hedge funds, private equity funds, managed futures/commodity pools and other alternative vehicles, as well as their advisers, managers and sponsors. Our Registered Investment Companies Practice is multifaceted, servicing open-end funds, closed-end funds and interval funds from registration, documentation and distribution to ongoing regulatory compliance. Our Broker-Dealer Team regularly advises broker-dealers on a variety of matters, including registration, disclosure and ongoing compliance issues such as regulatory examinations and investigations. Our Derivatives & Structured Products Group counsels on product development, transaction structure, regulatory, compliance, documentation, insolvency and litigation considerations and dispute resolution.

Accolades 

We have been recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the hedge fund and managed futures sectors, and several of our group members have been individually recognized by Chambers in their practice areas. 

We were a 2022 US Hedge Fund Services Awards finalist in the category “Best Onshore Law Firm – Start-ups.”

In early 2013, the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute offered Alston & Bird a unique opportunity to participate in a new pilot program – the Claritas Investment Certificate.

• Like the CFA designation, the certificate is a comprehensive global education program designed to provide clarity and understanding on the essentials of the financial services industry.
• The materials covered finance, economics, derivatives, international trade and foreign exchange, equity and debt securities, alternative investments, risk management and ethics.
• Alston & Bird was the only law firm invited to participate in the pilot program, and all 27 attorneys who took the exam passed.
• The Claritas pilot program was international in scope, with more than 2,700 participants representing more than 50 countries.

Timothy P. Selby, head of the Investment Funds Group, serves as chairman of the Board of Directors and past president of The New York Alternative Investment Roundtable.

Kristin P. Hinson, a partner in the Investment Funds Group, is a founding member of the Alternative Investment Group of the Carolinas (AIGC), a not-for-profit networking organization for alternative investment professionals in North and South Carolina. 

Bringing Value to Our Clients 

Our Investment Funds Group offers each of its clients strong support from experienced subject matter subject-matter experts, including Tax, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Bankruptcy, Litigation and Bank Regulatory.