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Practice Area
Investment Management
Steven B. Nadel is a partner in Seward & Kissel’s Investment Management Group. He joined the Firm in 1997. He is also the editor of The Private Funds Report, the group newsletter.
Mr. Nadel has extensive experience in issues relating to the establishment and ongoing operation of hedge funds and funds of funds (U.S. and offshore), private equity funds, group trusts, broker-dealers (including NASD and AMEX registrations and JBO arrangements), separate accounts, SEC and state registered investment advisers, commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisors, as well as related matters, including management company structuring, fund marketing, employment agreements, solicitation agreements, joint ventures, seed capital arrangements, performance disclosures, hot issues, soft dollars, blue sky filings, regulatory compliance and general organizational matters.
Mr. Nadel wrote a chapter on U.S. private investment fund regulation for the book entitled The Capital Guide to Alternative Investment, as well as for The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation. He has also authored the following investment management articles: State Level Investment Adviser Registration, Private Investment Forum, Fourth Quarter 2001; The Principal Elements of Private Equity, Private Asset Management, May 3, 1999; An Accountant’s Guide to the Major Legal Issues Affecting Hedge Funds, The CPA Journal, October 1998; and Becoming an SEC-Registered Investment Adviser: Understanding What’s Really Involved, Hedge Views, Summer 1998. He has also co-authored numerous other articles and has lectured regularly on various investment management topics. Mr. Nadel has periodically taught a course at the New York Institute of Finance entitled How to Start a Hedge Fund.
Mr. Nadel received a J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School in 1991 and a B.S. degree in Finance, magna cum laude, from New York University’s College of Business and Public Administration in 1988. He is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey, and is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. He is also a co-founder and member of the Board of Governors of the Wall Street Hedge Fund Forum, as well as a member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Private Investment Funds. | 