Managing Private Funds in a Volatile Market: Interacting With Investors, Lenders, and Regulators

Mr. Cota is a partner in the Financial Restructuring practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office. He advises and represents banks, private equity and hedge funds, business development companies, alternative capital providers, other financial institutions and private companies on a variety of complex financing transactions across a broad variety of industries and in all levels of the capital structure, both lender-side and borrower-side (including administrative agent and arranger representations).

Ms. Guberman has successfully handled a wide array of regulatory enforcement and white collar criminal matters, including those involving allegations of corporate and accounting fraud, securities fraud, insider trading, misappropriation of trade secrets, consumer protection issues, cybersecurity issues, and money laundering. She regularly represents clients in court and before the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ"), the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), the Federal Reserve, state attorney generals, FINRA and other self-regulatory organizations, other federal agencies, and international regulators.

Mr. Kustin is a partner in the Investment Management practice. He focuses his practice on advising sponsors of, and investors in, complex hedge, private equity and credit funds, and regularly counsels private fund advisers on international investment platforms including in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Mr. Kustin’s clients range from market-leading global asset managers, to startups, mid-sized, and larger managers. He has extensive experience counseling established, global investment advisers as well as start-up managers in most aspects of their operations and regulatory compliance matters. He advises investment fund managers faced with complex restructurings, succession planning, crisis/conflict resolution, and consent solicitations. His practice includes advising clients on the structuring of arrangements between investment managers’ principals, seeding transactions, co-investment and secondary transactions, and LP-side investments in private funds.