Biography: Private funds

Scott D Peterman is a partner in the firm's Hong Kong office, advising on corporate and commercial transactions with a primary focus on hedge fund formation, private equity transactions, and alternative investments. He is also a member of Sidley's emerging companies and venture capital practice. His private equity clients have included Bain Capital, The Carlyle Group, Madison Dearborn Partners, Olympus Partners, and Warburg Pincus, as well as several large Japanese banks, the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, and many of Asia's more prominent asset managers. Mr Peterman is one of the world's leading legal authorities on Asian and Japanese hedge funds, and one of only a handful of practicing attorneys in the world who holds a designation as a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), issued by the CFA Institute.

Mr Peterman has also advised clients on a broad range of legal matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, venture capital and entrepreneurial transactions, ranging from several million dollars to more than five billion dollars, corporate finance for telecommunications and high-tech clients, debt an equity restructurings as well as the regulatory issues implicated by these matters. In addition, Mr Peterman works with the managers of, or principals, in hedge funds, private equity funds and other financial services clients with respect to managing control and succession issues among partners, and implementing multigenerational planning and wealth transfer strategies by structuring upper-tier compensation schemes.

Prior to joining Sidley, Mr Peterman was country manager, China and Korea, for Apple; director of Asia Pacific for Alcatel Data Network; and director, business and strategic analysis, North America, for Cable & Wireless. Mr Peterman was formerly vice-chairman of the board of the CFA Society of Japan.

Mr Peterman has lived in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tokyo, and London and speaks Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. While in Taiwan, he studied at The Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies (IUP), colloquially known as the "Stanford Center," in Taipei.

Mr Peterman received his JD (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center in 1996, his PhD from Stanford University in 1986, his MA from Vanderbilt University in 1975, his MA from The Ohio State University in 1974, and his BA (with honours) from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 1973.