Joseph P Cunningham

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Joseph P. Cunningham is a partner in the Asset Management Department. Joe has extensive experience representing hedge funds, fund of funds, closed-end and hybrid funds and family office vehicles investing across a wide spectrum of liquid and illiquid assets in the U.S. and abroad. He focuses on advising fund managers in connection with fund structuring, sales and marketing, investor communications, side letters, trading and investments, day-to-day operations and regulatory compliance. He routinely advises managers with respect to global fund offerings to institutional and high net worth investors. Joe has extensive experience representing the world’s largest insurance and reinsurance companies and global asset managers in connection with launching insurance-linked securities (ILS) funds and reinsurance fund platforms. Working closely with partners in Willkie’s leading insurance and tax practices, Joe 's practice is at the forefront of the convergence of the reinsurance and asset management industries.

Over the course of his career, in addition to acting as lead U.S. counsel on numerous fund formations in the U.S. and various offshore jurisdictions, Joe has advised some of the world’s largest and most prominent fund managers, as well as mid-sized and smaller managers, with respect to a broad range of corporate and regulatory matters, including acquisitions, spinouts, financings, seeding arrangements, joint ventures, wind-ups, restructurings, litigations, and SEC examinations and investigations. Joe also has significant experience representing start-up fund management companies, including structuring management compensation, equity, profit sharing and carry vehicles, and negotiating seed capital deals and joint ventures among a host of capital providers, including seeding firms, family offices, fund of funds and former employers.

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Duke University School of Law, JD, 1998. Duke University, AB, 1994. See: https://www.willkie.com/professionals/c/cunningham%20joseph%20p