Daniel M. Diamond
Partner
Dan has more than a decade of experience advising both established and emerging private investment fund managers through each phase of the fundraising process, from pre-marketing through closing and beyond.
Key Matters
Dan’s experience includes:
- Representing leading asset managers in connection with forming commingled and single investor open- and closed-end blind pools and direct investment vehicles across all asset classes.
- Representing state plans, private foundations, asset managers, and other institutional investors in connection with secondary transactions (both GP- and LP-led), GP stake and other anchor investor transactions, equity co-investments, and investments in separate accounts, funds-of-one, hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds, secondaries funds, funds of funds, and other alternative asset classes, both domestically and internationally.
- Representing SEC-registered investment advisers in connection with their formation and ongoing operational needs, including day-to-day regulatory and compliance matters and during regulatory examinations and civil and criminal investigations.
- Representing startup and emerging managers while structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments.
- Representing fund management teams in connection with various internal management arrangements, including establishing employee carry vehicles, phantom equity plans, and in the course of spin-off and separation matters.
- Representing private equity sponsors, real estate sponsors, financial holding companies, and operating companies in connection with various transactional matters, including leveraged buy-outs, divestitures, the formation of joint ventures, and debt, equity, and hybrid investments.