Law firms are called upon to assist with transactions throughout a hedge fund’s life, helping the manager to navigate fund formation, regulatory and compliance issues, joint ventures, permanent capital transactions and many other matters.
In both the onshore and offshore categories, voters ranked importance of the aspects of service almost identically. The most important field was hedge fund expertise for both, and second in importance was regulatory and compliance. However, in the offshore arena, document preparation and fund formation was third and client service was fourth, and in the onshore category those two rankings were inverted.
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