Mark Vandehaar

Practice Areas

Mark A. Vandehaar is a partner in the Asset Management Department and Co-Chair of the Family Office Practice. Mark represents a variety of investment advisers, hedge funds and other private funds, family offices and insurance companies. He focuses on advising private fund managers and family offices in connection with complex corporate transactions as well as on structuring and operational matters. Mark also has extensive experience advising insurance companies on asset management related matters including investments by private equity firms in insurance companies.

Mark regularly represents some of the most prominent hedge fund sponsors as well as a broad range of other investment management clients in connection with all aspects of their business from fundraising to ongoing investment operations to matters of SEC and CFTC registration and regulatory compliance. He also often represents institutional investors in the acquisition of positions in all types of private funds and the negotiation of seed capital and revenue sharing arrangements as well as joint ventures. Mark has represented numerous fund managers in connection with the establishment of management companies, negotiations among founders and the successful transition of sponsors from founders to successors.

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University of Iowa College of Law, JD, 2004. Drake University, BM, 2001. See: https://www.willkie.com/professionals/v/vandehaar%20mark