Profile: Steven J Fredman

Private funds

Biography: Private funds

Steven Fredman is a partner in the investment management group at Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP where he practices primarily in the areas of investment funds (domestic and offshore); investment advisers and broker-dealers; acquisitions and financings of investment management firms, and securities regulation.

Mr Fredman has structured and organised private investment partnerships and offshore funds, including general equity, arbitrage, global investment, private equity, distressed company, small cap and fund of funds; and has provided counsel on issues relating to partnership law and the development of new products. He has structured and organised investment advisers and broker-dealers; handled registration of commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisors; and provided ongoing advice to investment advisers on securities law issues. He has also represented clients in connection with acquisitions and sales of investment management firms.

Mr Fredman is a 1980 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center where he was an editor of Law and Policy in International Business, and a 1977 graduate, Phi Beta Kappa, of Columbia University. He is a past member of the committee on partnership of the American Bar Association and the committee on art law of the New York City Bar Association.

Schulte Roth & Zabel is a 450-lawyer firm with offices in New York and London. Its fund practice is comprised of 13 partners and over 75 associates exclusively dedicated to the representation of fund sponsors and investors.