Scott Cheskiewicz

Practice Areas

Corporate & Securities; Investment Funds

Career

Scott Cheskiewicz leads Jackson Walker's Investment Funds team of lawyers experienced in representing institutional investors around the world with respect to alternative assets investments (e.g., “private markets” strategies such as private equity funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds and credit funds as well as “public markets” strategies such as hedge funds, long-only funds, collective investment trusts, and separately managed accounts). Representative clients include public and private pension plans, university and research endowments, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, corporate investment divisions, funds of funds and family offices.

One of Scott’s key focus areas is in bespoke investment arrangements, which can take the form of separately managed accounts, funds of one, master custody agreements, and strategic partnerships. These arrangements typically involve a high degree of customization, including bespoke investment guidelines and restrictions, changes to the standard of care, non-standard expense reimbursement, and highly customized management and incentive fee models. One of Scott’s favorite things to do is to work with clients to develop new incentive fee structures, including building and testing the fee models, because, in Scott’s words, “one cannot draft a fee schedule if one does not understand the math, and the best way to understand the math is to build the model.”

Professional Memberships

Alignment of Interests Association (AOI)

Texas Hedge Fund Conference, Panelist

Texas Hedge Fund Association, Events Committee

National Association of Public Pension Plan Attorneys (NAPPA)

American Bar Association – Business Law Section, Institutional Investor Subcommittee

Experience

Investments in alternative asset classes, including:

- Hedge and long-only funds

- Private equity funds

- Credit funds (both private equity and hedge fund style)

- Venture capital funds

- Commodities funds

- Reinsurance funds

- Custom funds of one

- Separately managed accounts

- Hedge and private equity funds of funds

- Emerging manager platforms

- Emerging markets investments

- Strategic, multi-asset class funds

In addition to Scott’s focus on alternative investments, Scott has assisted clients with mergers & acquisitions, bank regulatory matters, bank finance agreements, software licensing agreements, non-compete agreements, and other general corporate matters.

Education