LATHAM & WATKINS ADDS EXPERIENCED INVESTMENT FUNDS PRACTITIONER IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

Aaron Gilbride brings distinctive mixture of personal apply and authorities expertise to agency’s robust and rising Funding Funds Observe

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Latham & Watkins LLP¹ is happy to announce that Aaron Gilbride has joined the agency’s Washington, D.C. workplace as a companion within the Funding Funds Observe. Gilbride advises on the total vary of regulatory issues impacting funding advisers and funding funds, with a specific concentrate on compliance, enforcement, and securities rules related to fund formation and structuring, in addition to the operation and administration of funding advisers.

Gilbride has in depth expertise advising funding advisers, private and non-private funding funds, fund administrators, and different monetary establishments on a variety of federal securities and banking legal guidelines and rules, in addition to examinations and enforcement issues.

He additionally beforehand served in quite a few roles on the US Securities and Trade Fee (SEC), together with as Department Chief within the Chief Counsel’s Workplace within the Division of Funding Administration. On the SEC, Gilbride centered on the regulation of funding advisers and funding funds and supplied coverage suggestions affecting the asset administration trade. He labored intently with the SEC’s Division of Enforcement and Division of Examinations on examinations and enforcement issues referring to funding advisers and funding funds.

“Aaron brings a compelling mixture of personal apply and authorities expertise to our rising Funding Funds Observe. His arrival additional bolsters {our capability} and he’s completely outfitted to assist our purchasers navigate the total breadth of regulatory points. His substantive authorized abilities, mixed along with his coverage and regulatory expertise, will considerably assist our preeminent transactional practices,” mentioned Dan Lennon, Workplace Managing Accomplice of Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C.

“Aaron is a good strategic match for our apply: he’s educated, considerate, and brings an infinite quantity of expertise in a variety of substantive regulatory areas,” added Oliver Felsenstein, International Chair of Latham & Watkins’ Non-public Fairness and Funding Funds Practices. “His perception into the regulatory regimes relevant to our purchasers is very complementary to our increasing Funding Funds Observe and top-tier M&A, non-public fairness, and personal capital capabilities. We’re thrilled to welcome Aaron to the agency as we stay centered on constructing out our apply to serve our purchasers’ evolving wants.” 

“Becoming a member of Latham presents a singular alternative to proceed to develop my apply and advance the pursuits of my purchasers, who will profit from the agency’s world capabilities and assets,” mentioned Gilbride. “I look ahead to becoming a member of the group and contributing to the continued success and progress of the apply.”

Gilbride is the newest lawyer to hitch Latham’s Funding Funds Observe in current months, following the arrivals of companions John Kelley, David Sherman, and Jamie Lynn Walter, and counsel Joel Cavanaugh. Gilbride, Walter, and Cavanaugh all deliver important expertise working within the SEC’s Division of Funding Administration.

Gilbride joins Latham from Davis Polk. He obtained his JD from American College, Washington Faculty of Legislation and a BSc from Miami College.

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Notes to Editors

¹ Latham & Watkins operates worldwide as a restricted legal responsibility partnership organized beneath the legal guidelines of the State of Delaware (USA) with affiliated restricted legal responsibility partnerships conducting the apply in France, Hong Kong, Italy, Singapore, and the United Kingdom and as an affiliated partnership conducting the apply in Japan. Latham & Watkins operates in Israel via a restricted legal responsibility firm. Latham & Watkins operates in South Korea as a International Authorized Marketing consultant Workplace. Latham & Watkins works in cooperation with the Legislation Workplace of Salman M. Al-Sudairi within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Contacts

Dan Lennon, Washington, D.C. Workplace Managing Accomplice, +1.202.637.2347

Oliver Felsenstein, International Chair, Non-public Fairness and Funding Funds Practices, +49.69.6062.6590

SOURCE Latham & Watkins