Evan’s practice focuses on regulatory compliance for registered investment advisors and the formation and operation of private investment funds.

Evan represents clients on the formation, structuring and management of private investment funds. He regularly provides counsel to investment fund sponsors on private fund formations across a wide variety of strategies, including private equity funds, real estate funds, debt and credit funds, hedge funds, venture capital funds, energy funds and other private investment fund strategies. He also advises investment management firms on a wide variety of complex corporate matters, including implementing firm management arrangements, governance structures and compensation arrangements, negotiating seed investments and other strategic investments in fund sponsors, negotiating placement agent agreements and other marketing arrangements and negotiating transfers of equity interests in funds and fund sponsors.

Evan also regularly advises investment management firms, including private fund sponsors, real estate investment firms, REITs and wealth-management divisions of banks, with respect to the registration requirements of federal and state securities laws governing investment management. He also provides counsel to clients with respect to ongoing compliance with securities regulations and advises clients in connection with examinations by the SEC.

Prior to joining the firm, Evan served as an outsourced general counsel and chief compliance officer for alternative investment managers, including both private equity and hedge fund managers. Prior to that time, Evan served in-house as an attorney and compliance officer at a multi-billion dollar registered investment adviser.

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Education
JD, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, Articles Editor, Washington University Journal of Law & Policy; Member, Executive Editorial Board, 2007BA, Westminster College, magna cum laude, 2004