Corporate, Asset Management, Securities Enforcement and Regulation

Jessica Forbes is a corporate partner resident in Fried Frank’s New York office. Ms. Forbes concentrates her practice on securities regulation, including the regulation of investment advisers, investment companies and broker-dealers, with particular expertise in the Investment Advisers Act and the Investment Company Act. She regularly provides advice on trading and credit regulation to hedge funds, private equity firms, family offices, broker-dealers, other professional traders and high net-worth individuals. She has extensive experience with the structuring and ongoing operations of hedge funds, private equity funds, business development companies and other alternative investment products.

She also regularly advises publicly traded companies and their senior management in connection with trading and hedging activities, such as issuer repurchase transactions, sales of restricted stock and the use of financial derivatives to diversify concentrated stock positions. Ms. Forbes also advises on the regulatory implications of merger and acquisition transactions in the financial services industry.

Ms. Forbes joined the Firm in 1988 and became a partner in 1999.

Ms. Forbes is a member of the American Bar Association and the Managed Futures Association. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Investment Compliance and the Women’s Forum Planning Committee, a representative group directing Fried Frank’s Firmwide women’s affinity group.

Ms. Forbes received her JD from Fordham University School of Law in 1988 and her BS in Finance and Accounting from American University in 1985.