MAURICE COLLADA III

• Hedge Funds
• Investment Management
• Private Equity Funds

Maurice advises both start-up and seasoned private investment managers in all aspects of their business, including the formation, spinout, structuring and on-going operation of private investment funds and managed accounts of all types. Maurice is also experienced with SEC registration and examination and on-going compliance with the increasingly complex private investment management regulatory regimes.

With extensive experience in mature manager operations, Maurice brings a unique, long-term perspective to his clients since he has repeatedly observed how early decisions impact managers later in their life cycle. Maurice’s work with seasoned managers includes numerous private investment fund launches, platform restructurings, investor consent matters, fund re-purposing, varied side letter negotiations, placement agent agreement negotiations, employment and compensation matters, myriad conflicts analyses and fund investment structuring.

Maurice also has significant experience with insurance dedicated funds, including launching these specialized investment products, creating related compliance policies and procedures and negotiating with the platform providers and insurance carriers integrally involved in these vehicles.

Maurice has been named a New York Metro Rising Star by Super Lawyers since 2017.

• Primary relationship manager for numerous private fund clients, including both emerging managers with modest AUM and seasoned managers with billions under management
• Numerous master-feeder, standalone, SPV and other novel private investment fund launches of all strategies and across the liquidity spectrum from open-ended private funds to hybrid vehicles to more traditional venture and private equity funds
• Multiple management company formations and restructurings, including (re)negotiating partnership agreements for the principals and seed arrangements
• Restructuring and rationalizing the hedge fund platform of a globally known multi-billion dollar merger arbitrage investment manager, including multiple expedited investor expulsions and transfers, private fund structure mergers and vehicle spinouts
• Spinout of a private equity fund platform and related team on behalf of a multi-billion dollar investment manager
• Internal seed/platform deals for senior traders provided seed capital and infrastructure from their employer to launch a private fund and act as the primary portfolio manager
• Formation, structuring and operation of insurance dedicated funds (IDF), including standalone IDFs, insurance dedicated fund of fund structures and IDF subadvisory platforms, each of which customarily involves thorough negotiations with IDF counterparties

Order of the Coif

Drafting Joint Venture Agreements, including Keys to Structuring Real Estate and Construction Deals

Co-Presenter, American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education, January 2021

Practical Considerations of Insurance Dedicated Funds

Wells Fargo Prime Services Business Consulting Quarterly Report, March 2019