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Akin Offices
ONE BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
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Barbara Niederkofler
Work Department
Partner; Investment Management
Position
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
Languages
French, Italian, German
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School, 2003; B.A., Yale University, summa cum laude, 2000
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
Prominent asset management firms, institutional investors and private fund managers across real estate, venture capital, energy and credit turn to Akin for their expertise on diverse private fund types. The team is regarded for being ‘knowledgeable about the market’, with a standout feature being their expertise on emerging market funds. Barbara Niederkofler leads the team out of New York and is supported in the team by credit funds expert Blayne Grady in Washington DC, and Dennis Pereira in New York, who clients recommend ‘without hesitation’. Notable team developments in 2023 include the partner promotions of Jason Glennon in Dallas and Amanda Butler-Jones in Washington DC.
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
New York’s Barbara Niederkofler leads the alternative hedge funds team at Akin, regularly advising major start-up and well-established hedge funds, particularly in regards to complex compliance matters with extensive regulatory demands. Representing both domestic and offshore hedge fund managers, JP Bruynes advises on the full range of related matters. The team’s expertise includes formation and structuring of investor funds, advising venture capital managers, and handling structured risk for a wide range of clients, including Blackstone Alternative Asset Management. Ann E. Tadajweski and Jonathan A. Ross are lead contacts on a $73 billion alternative investment firm focusing on asset-based specialty private credit investments, advising on fund structuring. Max Karpel joined the investment management group in August 2023. All lawyers are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
- Alternative/hedge funds United States > Investment fund formation and management
- Private equity funds (including venture capital) United States > Investment fund formation and management
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism