Eric Wagner chairs the firm's Corporate Department. Eric focuses his practice on the financial services industry, specializing in advising both start-up and seasoned private investment funds, SEC and state registered investment advisors, commodity trading advisors and broker-dealers on regulatory and strategic issues related to their formation, operation and investments. He has extensive experience in structuring management company ownership agreements and seed capital arrangements, as well as advising clients with respect to marketing agreements, employment matters, soft dollar arrangements, blue sky compliance and general securities matters. Eric was named a Leading Lawyer for Investment Funds: Hedge Funds by the 2013 Edition of the IFLR1000 – The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms.
BAR ADMISSION:
1997, New York
EDUCATION:
New York University School of Law (J.D., 1995)
Staff Editor, New York University Review of Law & Social Change
Cornell University (B.S., 1992)
MEMBER:
New York City Bar Association (Private Investment Funds Committee, 2007-2011)
Managed Funds Association
Texas Hedge Fund Association
LECTURER:
J.P. Morgan Seminar on "Managing Your Hedge Fund Business in an Effective and Compliant Manner," June 2011
Maples Investment Funds Forum, February 2011
Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage Conference, May 2009
Banc of America Prime Brokerage Services Sixth Annual Southwest CFO/COO Summit, May 2008
UBS Prime Brokerage CFO/COO Conference, September 2006, October 2007, April 2010
GAIM USA Hedge Fund Conference, January 2006
Foundation for Accounting Education Investment Partnership Conference, 2004 and 2005
