London, 10 September 2008— LAWFUEL – Legal Announcements – Schulte Roth & Zabel International LLP is pleased to announce that senior and founding partner Daniel S. Shapiro, while continuing to serve as a partner in the firm’s London office, has also joined firm client Lincoln Vale, a multi-product asset management firm based in London and Boston, as a partner involved in all aspects of Lincoln Vale’s business.
“Dan will continue to provide his extraordinary talents to our clients as a partner in the London office. Under the leadership of Dan and Chris Hilditch, we are recognized as one of the leading law firms to hedge funds in London,” emphasized Paul Roth, head of SRZ’s Investment Management Group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. “We wish Dan great success at Lincoln Vale. We are certain that his expertise, and boundless energy, will be as important to their success as it has been, and will continue to be, to ours.”
One of SRZ’s founding members, Mr. Shapiro’s practice focuses on tax and business issues related to investment funds. He lectures and writes extensively on the legal, tax and business aspects of investment funds, and recently testified on behalf of the Managed Funds Association about offshore tax issues affecting hedge funds at hearings held by the U.S. House Ways & Means and Senate Finance Committees.
In related news, the firm has announced that special counsel Josh Dambacher has transferred to the London office from New York. Mr. Dambacher’s practice focuses on hedge funds, private equity funds, investment advisers, investment partnerships, regulatory compliance, acquisitions, seed capital and joint venture arrangements. He holds a J.D. from University of Michigan Law School; an M.B.A. from Purdue University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa; and a B.B.A., with distinction, from the University of Missouri.
“We are committed to our investment management practice in the UK, which is an integral part of the firm’s preeminent capabilities in this area,” Alan Waldenberg, head of SRZ’s Tax Group and a member of the Executive Committee, said of the move. “Josh’s involvement in fund formations as well as his advice to financial institutions and investment managers regarding the spin-off and restructuring of investment management businesses, and to investment funds regarding alternative leverage structures, makes him particularly well-suited to address the current needs of clients in our London office.”
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP (www.srz.com), with more than 450 attorneys in London, New York and Washington, D.C., offers legal counsel in investment management, tax, business transactions, structured products & derivatives, finance, litigation, business reorganization, bank regulatory, real estate, intellectual property, sourcing & technology, employment & employee benefits, individual client services, and environmental law. The firm’s London office, which has established itself as a leading practice in the European investment management sector since its launch in 2001, brings the firm’s four decades of experience in alternative investment funds to bear on major fund launches, and when advising U.S. funds on the formation of London offices and counseling London managers on opening U.S. outposts. In 2007, the office received the Hedge Fund Journal Award for “Best US Law Firm in London” and the most recent survey by Albourne Village, an online community for the alternative investment industry, gave the office its Legal Eagle award, declaring it to be London’s “Best Hedge Fund Law Firm.”
