Experienced hedge fund, investment management and private equity lawyer Kay A. Gordon joins Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP today as a partner in the firm’s 30-lawyer, nationally ranked Investment Management Group. She joins the firm from the New York office of K&L Gates.
“We are thrilled to welcome Kay to the firm,” said Alfred W. Putnam, Jr., Chairman of Drinker Biddle. “Our Investment Management Group has been a leader in the field for decades and we are particularly pleased that it now has a presence in New York as well as Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington.”
Drinker Biddle opened its Midtown Manhattan office in late 2011, and has tripled its size since, adding lawyers to the Corporate, Litigation, Intellectual Property, Restructuring and Insurance practice groups in the last year.
Gordon concentrates her work in the Investment Management practice, with a particular emphasis on hedge funds, private equity funds and compliance-related matters involving registered advisers and broker-dealers. She also advises clients on a broad range of securities and regulatory matters as well as a variety of financial instruments and transactions, including managed accounts, credit facilities, joint ventures and derivative instruments, and represents strategic investors in private equity, real estate and venture capital funds.
“We are very excited to have Kay join our group to help us expand our top-notch investment management practice,” added Joshua B. Deringer, chair of the firm’s Investment Management Group. “She is an extremely talented lawyer who complements and strengthens our existing practice with respect to private fund formation and investment adviser and other compliance matters.”
An accomplished writer and lecturer on investment management law, Gordon earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Allegheny College. She has been recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Investment Fund Formation and Management by The Legal 500.
