Akin

Partner; Investment Management

Barbara Niederkofler represents some of the most prominent private equity and hedge fund sponsors, as well as a broad range of other investment clients, including credit funds, hybrid funds, family offices and institutional investors.

Barbara’s practice focuses on the formation and operations of private investment funds along the liquidity spectrum, including structuring funds and managers in multiple jurisdictions, providing guidance on fundraising and solicitation issues, advising on seed arrangements, spinouts, joint ventures and “upper tier” arrangements, handling registrations and exemptive filing under securities and commodities laws with regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association (NFA), and advising on ongoing maintenance of fund structures as well as compliance issues for managers.

Barbara has substantial experience with all aspects of investment adviser compliance and registrations. She has extensive experience in relation to the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and she also regularly advises clients with respect to regulatory examinations and investigations.

To learn more about Barbara, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/barbara-niederkofler.html

French, Italian, German

J.D., Harvard Law School, 2003; B.A., Yale University, summa cum laude, 2000