Biography: Private funds

Michael J Schmidtberger is a partner in Sidley's New York office. He is co-head of the investment funds, advisers and derivatives group, and is a member of the firm's management committee and executive committee.

His principal areas of practice are securities and futures-related funds and corporate transactions, including related regulatory matters. Mr Schmidtberger regularly advises and represents clients in domestic and international offerings of hedge funds, fund of funds, public and private commodity pools and structured derivative and principal-protected transactions. Mr Schmidtberger has also counselled clients in numerous fund restructurings and work-out situations.

Mr Schmidtberger is a member of the American Bar Association's federal regulation of securities committee and subcommittee on hedge funds. He was a member of the New York City Bar Association committee on futures regulation from 1997 to 2000.

Mr Schmidtberger received his JD from Columbia University School of Law in 1985, where he was editor in chief of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, and his BA (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Bennett Cerf Prize in English) from Columbia College in 1982. He is admitted in New York.