Bio

Focuses on building complex hedge funds and credit funds across the liquidity spectrum (evergreen, open-end and closed-end). Daniel Hunter clients manage sophisticated private funds that invest in private credit, including venture debt funds, closed-end private debt funds, direct lending funds, loan funds, distressed credit funds, opportunity funds and more. In addition, he has more than 20 years of experience advising hedge fund managers. He focuses on multi-strategy managers, multi-manager firms, quantitative managers and cross-over managers, among other types of asset management firms. He works on groundbreaking funds and strategies with new and emerging managers, as well as hedge fund formations for prominent brand-name global leading managers. He also provides day-to-day regulatory, operational, M&A and restructuring advice, and advises fund managers regarding the receipt of seed capital. Dan is ranked Band 3 in Chambers Global Hedge Funds – USA 2024. He has been ranked by Chambers USA in Investment Funds: Hedge Funds – Nationwide as well as by The Legal 500 US in Investment Fund Formation and Management – Alternative/Hedge Funds. Chambers notes that clients praised him as “outstanding to work with,” adding that “he is very smart, very experienced and very responsive.”