Udi Grofman

Udi Grofman is a partner in the Corporate Department, co-head of the firm’s Private Funds Practice Group and a member of the Investment Management Practice Group. His practice has an emphasis on investment funds, securities law and regulatory compliance.

Experience

Udi's experience includes structuring financial services and investment management firms, hedge funds, private equity funds, hybrid funds and funds-of-funds, and scalable platforms for fund sponsors; and structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments and relationships. Udi represents institutional seeders and has negotiated dozens of seed deals for seed investors and seeded managers. In addition, he regularly advises investment management firms and their principals on regulatory compliance, crisis and risk management, and other operational issues. Udi also represents both buyers and sellers on mergers and acquisitions of investment management firms and has considerable experience in investment management firm reorganizations.

Udi is recognized as a Band 1 investment funds lawyer in Chambers USA. He is also recognized as a leading lawyer in Who's Who Legal-The International Who's Who of Private Funds Lawyers and in The Legal 500. He writes and speaks frequently on the challenges facing hedge funds in today's market.

Udi served as a lecturer for The Interdisciplinary Center-School of Law, School of Business Management, Herzliya, Israel and is a captain (ret.) in the Israel Defense Forces.

Practices

• Corporate
• Investment Management
• Private Equity Transactions
  

Education

• LL.M., New York University School of Law, 2000
• LL.B., Tel-Aviv University, 1996
  magna cum laude

Bar Admissions

• New York

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