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Mr Sean Finley

+1 212 848 4346 sean.finley@aoshearman.com View profile

Work Department

Investment Funds

Position

Partner

Career

Sean is US Co-Head of Funds & Asset Management and has extensive experience advising clients on sponsoring and investing in a broad range of private funds, and on various legal, compliance and operational matters related to the management of such funds.

He also advises clients on negotiating and documenting managed account arrangements, distribution arrangements, secondary transactions and various strategic transactions (including seed arrangements, spin-outs and joint ventures), and devotes a significant portion of his practice to advising clients on regulatory compliance matters (including SEC and NFA inspections) and acquisitions and sales of asset management businesses.

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Top Tier Firm Rankings

• Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense

Firm Rankings

• Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
• Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• Environment > Environment: transactional
• Tax > Financial products
• Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
• Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
• Dispute resolution > International litigation
• Tax > International tax
• Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
• Finance > Project finance
• Energy > Renewable/alternative power
• Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
• Finance > Structured finance: securitization
• Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
• Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
• Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
• Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Antitrust > Merger control
• Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
• Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
• Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
• Antitrust > Cartel
• Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
• Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
• Finance > Fintech
• Real estate > Real estate finance
• Finance > Financial services regulation
• Dispute resolution > International arbitration
• M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
• Real estate > Real estate
• Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Tax > US taxes: contentious
• Finance > Commercial lending
• Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
• Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
• Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation