For the second consecutive year, Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine has ranked Sidley Austin LLP (www.sidley.com) the number one legal adviser to the hedge fund industry among onshore law firms. Additionally, Sidley placed first in almost every sub-category, including "business planning," "client service," "hedge fund expertise" and "regulatory and compliance."
CHICAGO & NEW YORK (Business Wire EON) November 1, 2007 --
For the second consecutive year, Institutional Investor’s
Alpha Magazine has ranked Sidley Austin
LLP (www.sidley.com) the number
one legal adviser to the hedge fund industry among onshore law firms.
Additionally, Sidley placed first in almost every sub-category,
including “business planning,”
“client service,” “hedge
fund expertise” and “regulatory
and compliance.”
“We are particularly gratified by the results
of this year’s Alpha Awards™
because we have once again been chosen by our clients,”
explained Thomas A.
Cole, chair of the firm’s Executive
Committee. “We have been privileged to work
with some of the most respected hedge funds and alternative asset
managers and we are very proud of the performance of our team, which
this ranking acknowledges.”
The Alpha
Awards™ are tabulated from the responses
of nearly 1,000 hedge fund firms, representing roughly $1.4 trillion in
assets under management. The list of respondents include Alpha’s
2007 Hedge Fund 100 list of the top-performing firms. Additionally, this
year Alpha introduced a new ranking showing which providers best serve
hedge fund firms with assets $1 billion or more; Sidley was ranked
first in this new category.
For more information on the Alpha Awards™ and Alpha
Magazine, the authoritative publication of the hedge fund industry
from Institutional Investor, please visit www.alphamagazine.com.
About Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley’s hedge fund and investment management
practice comprises approximately 95 lawyers in New York, Chicago, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Hong Kong and London. The team, led by Michael
Schmidtberger and John
MacKinnon in New York and William
Kerr in Chicago, provides a full range of legal services
to hedge fund manager clients, including advice on legal structure and
other formation issues, securities and derivatives regulatory and
compliance matters, capital markets and corporate finance transactions,
"seed capital" transactions, hedge fund manager mergers and
acquisitions, marketing arrangements, trading documentation, exchange
listing, and tax and ERISA matters. Sidley was also named Investment
Funds Law Firm of the Year in the 2007 Asian Legal Business Awards.
Sidley Austin LLP is one of the
world's largest full-service law firms, with more than 1,800 lawyers
practicing in 16 U.S. and international cities including Beijing,
Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Shanghai, Singapore,
Sydney and Tokyo. Every year since 2003, Sidley has been named to Legal
Business’ Global Elite, their designation
for "the 15 finest law firms in the world." Sidley was again named the
number one law firm for overall client service by BTI, a Boston-based
consulting and research firm, in 2007. BTI has also named Sidley to
their Client Service Hall of Fame as one of only two law firms to rank
in the Client Service Top 10 for six years in a row.
For purposes of the New York State Bar rules, this press release may
be considered Attorney Advertising and the headquarters of the firm are
Sidley Austin LLP 787 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019, 212.839.5300
and Sidley Austin LLP One South Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60603,
312.853.7000. Prior results described herein do not guarantee a similar
outcome.
Sidley Austin LLP, a Delaware limited liability partnership which
operates at the firm’s offices other than
Chicago, London, Hong Kong, and Sydney, is affiliated with other
partnerships, including Sidley Austin LLP, an Illinois limited liability
partnership (Chicago); Sidley Austin LLP, a separate Delaware limited
liability partnership (London); Sidley Austin, a New York general
partnership (Hong Kong); Sidley Austin, a Delaware general partnership
of registered foreign lawyers restricted to practicing foreign law
(Sydney); and Sidley Austin Nishikawa Foreign Law Joint Enterprise
(Tokyo). The affiliated partnerships are referred to herein collectively
as Sidley Austin, Sidley, or the firm.
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