Brad Howard

Practice Areas

BRAD HOWARD serves as the Chicago office group head of the Investment Funds practice area. He advises alternative asset managers with respect to hedge funds, fund of hedge funds, managed accounts, private equity funds and various related structures. Brad also advises clients on managed account platforms, fund-related derivatives, special opportunity funds, co-investments, and commodity pools. His advice often focuses on structuring, regulatory, and compliance issues for these products.

Brad has advised clients on seed deals, joint ventures, manager restructurings, manager M&A transactions, and other manager-related transactions. He also advises on the Investment Advisers Act, the Commodity Exchange Act and Regulation D. Brad advises asset manager clients on credit facilities and financing/leverage-related derivative instruments.

Representative Transactions Include:

• Manager and fund startups

• Hybrid funds

• Managed account platforms

• Manager acquisitions buy-outs and joint ventures

• Asset allocator and LP-side representations

• Fund derivatives