Mr Jason Kaplan > Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Offices
919 THIRD AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Jason Kaplan
Work Department
Investment Management, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Regulatory & Compliance
Position
Jason S. Kaplan concentrates on corporate and securities matters for investment managers and alternative investment funds. Jason represents institutional and entrepreneurial investment managers, financial services firms and private investment funds in all aspects of their business. Jason’s practice focuses on advising managers of hedge, private equity and hybrid funds regarding the structure of their businesses and on day-to-day operational, securities, corporate and compliance issues; structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments and relationships and joint ventures; and advising investment managers with respect to regulatory and compliance issues.
Jason’s recent speaking engagements include discussing “Regulatory and Tax,” at SRZ’s 6th Annual Private Equity Fund Conference, discussing “Insurance Dedicated Funds and Related Strategies” and leading “A Conversation with Jason Dillow, Bardin Hill Investment Partners LP,” SRZ’s 28th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar, discussing “Shareholder Activism” at SRZ’s 27th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar and “Credit and Hybrid Funds” at SRZ’s 26th Annual Private Investment Funds Seminar. His recent publications include co-authoring “Information Security: Obligations and Expectations,” an SRZ White Paper.
Memberships
American Bar Association.
Education
Fordham University School of Law, JD, Fordham Law Review; University of Michigan, BS.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP went from strength to strength in the hedge fund space, 2022 seeing several additions to the department, including Leonora Shalet from Morrison Foerster in May; and Peter Greene, Benjamin Kozinn and Eileen Overbaugh from Lowenstein Sandler LLP in March. This latter group has a focus on advising prominent individual investment managers that are striking out on their own. They join a department with an impressive client roster of numerous high-profile hedge funds at an international level, as well as a host of fund managers. Greene has become part of the department’s leadership team, alongside market reference Stephanie Breslow
; David Efron; and David Nissenbaum. Jennifer Dunn is another key contact, assisting clients with structuring, formation, operational needs, and regulatory and compliance issues. Diameter Capital Partners and Cerberus Capital Partners are among the standout clients of Jason Kaplan, and Peter Naismith is another name to note from the sizeable practice. All named lawyers are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate