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Jessica Taylor O'Mary
Associate
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Jessica advises hedge fund advisers on all aspects of their business, from formation of management company structures and fund formation, to a wide range of compliance matters, operational and trading issues facing registered investment advisers, to business acquisitions, sales and wind-downs. Her clients include both investment advisers to hedge funds as well as private equity funds and funds of funds.
Jessica has extensive experience advising fund managers on Advisers Act compliance issues, including but not limited to advertising rules, custody rules and personal trading requirements. In addition, she negotiates service provider and other contractual arrangements for clients, including side letters with investors, seed investor arrangements, employment arrangements, administrator contracts, and placement agent arrangements.
- Advising sponsors regarding the formation of funds, including complex redemption terms and side pockets, fee structures, and “hybrid” fund products combining aspects of hedge and private equity funds.
- Registering investment advisers under the Advisers Act and adopting and advising on compliance policies and procedures for numerous hedge fund and private equity fund advisers.
- Advising investment adviser clients regarding Advisers Act marketing and advertising rules.
- Regularly advising numerous investment advisers regarding non-US offering rules.
- Advising hedge fund and private equity fund advisers on issues arising from the credit crisis and market turmoil, including the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, challenges related to illiquid assets, and wind-downs.
- Advising a multi-national investment adviser and broker-dealer regarding use of social media.
- Advising a business development company regarding Investment Company Act and Advisers Act issues and various other ongoing compliance issues.
- Advising on the acquisition of investment adviser businesses.
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Education
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JD, magna cum laude, Boston College Law School, 2003; Order of the Coif; Editor in Chief, Boston College Law Review; President, International Law Society
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AB (Environmental Science and Public Policy), cum laude, Harvard College, 1999
Bar Admissions
- New York, 2008
- Massachusetts, 2004
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