Investment Management

The Investment Management Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and affiliates (“Skadden, Arps” or “Skadden”) provides a wide array of legal services to investment advisers, private and registered investment funds, investment banks, broker-dealers and diversified financial service firms.  The group regularly represents clients in the formation, financing, acquisition and sale of investment management businesses of all kinds; counsels investment advisers, underwriters and investors in connection with the structuring and offering of registered and unregistered investment funds; advises financial institutions and other clients in analyzing, structuring and offering innovative financial products; and provides regulatory advice to the group’s clients in connection with SEC, CFTC, FINRA and other regulatory matters.  We have considerable experience in the 40 Act aspects of the formation and public offering of mortgage REITS, working closely with the tax and corporate finance departments.  Our 40 Act knowledge was instrumental in structuring the recent public offerings of alternative asset managers including Fortress, Blackstone, Och-Ziff and others.  Attorneys in the Investment Management Group are located in our New York, Chicago, Boston and Tokyo offices.