O’Melveny & Myers LLP announced today that Timothy M. Clark has joined the Firm as a partner in the Investment Funds and Securitization Practice.  Clark is based in O’Melveny’s New York office.

A partner with more than two decades of experience in the investment funds arena advising both investors and funds, Clark’s practice includes advising hedge funds, private equity funds, and venture capital funds in fund formations, as well as in the structuring of complex transactions such as investment adviser mergers and acquisitions.  His hedge fund clients include long/short equity funds, global macro funds, risk and convertible arbitrage funds, distressed funds, relative value funds, emerging market funds, fund of funds, pension funds, and endowment funds.  Clark also advises clients with respect to the Investment Advisers Act, Investment Company Act, and other compliance issues.

“The US remains the largest source of capital for private funds, and fund clients from all over the world need knowledgeable and sophisticated counsel with regard to US law, particularly now given recent legislation such as Dodd-Frank and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act,” said John Daghlian, chair of O’Melveny’s Investment Funds and Securitization Practice.  “With his well-rounded alternative asset and compliance background, Tim is well qualified to join our global team of seasoned advisors guiding clients through the broad–and ever-changing–array of legal and regulatory issues affecting investment funds, securitization, and other forms of financing.”

“O’Melveny has a sterling reputation in the investment funds space and is clearly committed to a truly global platform,” said Clark.  “I look forward to contributing to the practice in New York and firmwide, and collaborating with my private equity and finance colleagues to help clients achieve their most important and challenging fundraising and investing goals.”

Clark received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in Ohio with honors in 1988, before graduating from New York University School of Law in 1991, where he served as Articles Editor for the Annual Survey of American Law.  He is a member of the Managed Funds Association, the New York Hedge Funds Roundtable, and the Regulatory Compliance Association, where he is a Chief Compliance Officer University Faculty Professor.