Daniel Spies

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DAN SPIES is a partner and the co-leader of Sidley’s New York Investment Funds practice. He has 20 years of experience focusing on private investment funds and their investment advisers in connection with formation, corporate, regulatory, and compliance matters. Dan regularly advises clients on the formation and operation of hedge funds, digital assets funds, private equity funds, private credit funds, hybrid funds, commodity pools, funds of funds, managed accounts, and single investor funds. He also assists his clients with the formation and operation of their management entities, including compliance with the Investment Advisers Act and the Commodity Exchange Act. Dan has deep experience advising clients on seed capital and acceleration capital arrangements as well as minority stakes transactions involving asset management firms. Dan’s clients range in size from startup managers to large institutional asset management firms.