Rita Molesworth > Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP Offices
787 SEVENTH AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10019
NEW YORK
United States
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Rita Molesworth
Work Department
Corporate & Financial Services
Position
Please see https://www.willkie.com/professionals/m/molesworth-rita-m
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
Specializing in advising a range of hedge fund and investment managers on the full range of SEC and CFTC related regulatory matters, the hedge funds team at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is led by a six-person team including Phillip Isom, Margery Neale, Lior Ohayon, Joseph Cunningham, Rita Molesworth, and Mark Vandehaar. The team’s key strengths include assisting with management structuring, acting as fund counsel in negotiations, and advising on fund manager formations. Gabriel Acri regularly handles related cross-border matters, assisting international investment advisers and other clients on securities and alternative investment vehicles, while Deborah Tuchman advises advising on the distribution of real estate investment trusts. All listed lawyers are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Sport
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism