Eric Requenez is a partner in the Private Funds and Asset Management group where he represents fund sponsors, distributors and investors in connection with the formation, structuring and capitalization of private investment funds as well as other securities offerings, regulatory and compliance matters, transactions and other corporate matters.
Eric focuses on advising fund sponsors and placement agents in the structuring, negotiation and capitalization of U.S. and non-U.S. private funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, credit funds and energy and infrastructure funds. Eric has significant experience representing sponsors in the formation of open-ended real estate, infrastructure and other illiquid asset funds. He also advises clients on the formation of related advisory and management entities.
Eric also has advised clients in the development, structuring, operation and regulation of closed-end funds, business development companies and mutual funds and works with sponsors who seek to tap into both the institutional and retail markets.
In addition, Eric counsels investment advisers in transactional, regulatory and compliance related to the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Volcker Rule.
Eric serves on Law360’s 2020 Editorial Advisory Board for Private Equity. He also is a frequent contributor to Private Equity Law Report.
New York
J.D., Columbia Law School, 2007
B.A., Columbia University, 2004
Eric Requenez is a partner in the Private Funds and Asset Management group where he represents fund sponsors, distributors and investors in connection with the formation, structuring and capitalization of private investment funds as well as other securities offerings, regulatory and compliance matters, transactions and other corporate matters.
Eric focuses on advising fund sponsors and placement agents in the structuring, negotiation and capitalization of U.S. and non-U.S. private funds, including private equity funds, real estate funds, credit funds and energy and infrastructure funds. Eric has significant experience representing sponsors in the formation of open-ended real estate, infrastructure and other illiquid asset funds. He also advises clients on the formation of related advisory and management entities.
Eric also has advised clients in the development, structuring, operation and regulation of closed-end funds, business development companies and mutual funds and works with sponsors who seek to tap into both the institutional and retail markets.
In addition, Eric counsels investment advisers in transactional, regulatory and compliance related to the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Volcker Rule.
Eric serves on Law360’s 2020 Editorial Advisory Board for Private Equity. He also is a frequent contributor to Private Equity Law Report.
New York
J.D., Columbia Law School, 2007
B.A., Columbia University, 2004
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