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Rick is the co-leader of the Fund Formation and Investment Management practice group at McGuireWoods and is a fund formation lawyer with over 25 years of experience representing investment managers in the establishment of private funds and related products and representing institutional investors with respect to alternative investments. Rick’s experience spans the spectrum of private funds and other alternative investments and related transactions, including the formation of and representing investors in buyout, venture capital, secondary, hedge, hybrid, real estate, and funds of funds, as well as SMAs, funds of one, GP-led secondary transactions, secondary transactions involving purchases and sales of interests in funds, co-investments, investment vehicles for independent sponsors, and other customized transactions. He also frequently represents real estate developers and other businesses in capital-raising and related activities. Rick’s vast investor-side experience helps bring to bear an intimate knowledge of market terms, investor concerns, and different ways to document funds and transactions that provides unique added value both to fund sponsor clients and to investor clients. Rick’s work in the fund formation area also includes advising clients with respect to registration under and compliance with the Investment Advisers Act and similar state laws, along with other regulatory and compliance matters such as compliance with the Investment Company Act, the Securities Act of 1933 and other federal and state securities laws. He also works with clients on internal governance and structural issues unique to the private investment industry. Rick has also represented clients in other investment and corporate transactions, and, as an extension of his transactional work, he has often advised clients on business formations, significant commercial contracts and other general legal matters.
