Paul N Roth

Practice Areas

Throughout his career, Paul has acted as counsel to leading public and private companies in financial services and to their boards of directors.

His extensive private investment funds practice, an area in which he has more than 50 years of experience, includes the representation of hedge funds, private equity funds, offshore funds, investment advisers and broker-dealers in connection with fund formations and compliance, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions (domestic and cross-border) and other financial transactions.

Considered the “dean of the hedge fund bar,” Paul serves as a special adviser to the board of directors of the Managed Funds Association (MFA). He is the former chair of the Subcommittee on Hedge Funds of the ABA’s Committee on Federal Securities Regulation and the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on Securities Regulation.

Paul is recognized as a leading funds lawyer by The Best Lawyers in America, which also named him New York City Private Funds/Hedge Funds Law Lawyer of the Year; Chambers Global, Chambers USA, IFLR1000, Expert Guide to the Best of the Best USA, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers, Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America, The Legal 500 US, New York Super Lawyers, PLC Cross-border Investment Funds Handbook, Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers.

He was recently honored at The Hedge Fund Journal Awards for his outstanding achievement in the hedge fund industry. He also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Hedge Funds Care in recognition of his prominence in the hedge funds industry and his extraordinary commitment to philanthropy. He was named to HFMWeek’s 2010 list of the 50 most influential people in hedge funds.

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Personal

Fulbright Fellowship for Study of Law in the Netherlands, Other, 1964-65

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1964

Harvard College, A.B., magna cum laude, 1961