Joshua Cohen has almost 20 years of experience advising clients in the structuring, formation and maintenance of open and closed-end private investment funds, including hedge funds, private equity and credit funds, hybrid funds, fund of funds vehicles, liquid alternative mutual funds and scalable platforms for fund sponsors.

A significant portion of Josh’s practice focuses on providing strategic advice to asset management firms, including in connection with seed capital transactions and complex minority and majority investments, acquisitions and dispositions in existing firms. Josh also provides regulatory counseling under the Investment Advisers Act, the Securities Act of 1933, the Investment Company Act, the Commodity Exchange Act, the Bank Holding Company Act, the Dodd-Frank Act and applicable agency rules.

Josh leverages his prior in-house experience to provide a nuanced approach to his clients’ legal and business needs. Before returning to private practice, Josh was a Managing Director and the General Counsel of Highbridge Capital Management and the Global Head of Alternatives Legal for JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Management. He was responsible for managing the legal affairs of Highbridge’s and JPMorgan Asset and Wealth Management’s $120 billion Alternatives platform which spans a broad range of alternative investment strategies and asset classes, including publicly traded equity and credit, private equity and credit, real estate and infrastructure in the US, Europe and Asia.