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Clifford Chance Offices
31 WEST 52ND STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10019-6131
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Clifford Cone
Work Department
Capital Markets
Position
Cliff Cone focuses his practice on the investment management sector and has a broad base of expertise advising alternative investment managers, registered investment companies and boards of directors with respect to all aspects of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Cliff has extensive experience with the organization and ongoing representation of U.S. registered open-end and closed-end investment companies, exchange-traded funds and business development companies. He also regularly consults with investment advisers on registration and ongoing compliance and disclosure issues.
Education
Brooklyn Law School (JD, Richardson Merit Scholar), 2005; Cornell University (BA), 2002
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Fintech
Clifford Chance has an experienced team that builds upon the firm’s market leading edge in global financial services. The firm represents a broad range of major banking institutions, insurers and fintech companies, and is also taking on an increasing number of mandates in cryptocurrencies, blockchain and digital assets. The comprehensive service includes transactional, regulatory and contentious support on domestic and cross-border matters. The firm has recently been involved in several matters linked to the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) movement, and also assisted a crypto exchange on financings backed by Bitcoin. Washington DC-based regulatory partner Steven Gatti heads the team, which also includes fellow DC partner Megan Gordon, who assists with regulatory, compliance and internal investigations. New York partner Clifford Cone and Jason Myers respectively handle related investment funds and corporate finance matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Tax > Financial products
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Fintech
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate