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    Joseph A. Hearn

    Partner

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    New York

    +1-212-558-4000

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    hearnj@sullcrom.com

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    Joseph Hearn advises investment advisers, broker-dealers, public-company executives, family offices and other clients on a range of matters.

    Mr. Hearn advises both commercial asset managers and family offices on key issues such as the structuring and setup of management companies and private funds, seed investments, partnership economics, executive compensation, governance and succession planning. In addition, he has a broad-based regulatory practice under the U.S. securities laws, which involves investment adviser and broker-dealer regulation, disclosures of investment positions, 10b5-1 plans, information barriers, private placements and resales of restricted securities, among other things. He also regularly represents issuers and investors in a variety of investment transactions.

    Mr. Hearn’s clients have included AIG, AXA, Bank of America, BMW Financial Services, Bozano Investimentos, Breakthrough Properties, D. E. Shaw & Co., Equitas, Fiera Capital Corporation, First Southern Bancorp, Fortress Investment Group, Galaxy Digital, GE Capital, GMP Capital, Goldman Sachs, H/2 Capital Partners, Jadian Capital, J. Safra Sarasin Group, JPMorgan Chase, McCourt Global, Millstein & Co., Muzinich & Co., National Australia Bank, New York Bankers Association, Overstock.com, Renaissance Technologies, SALT Lending, Standard Investments, Temasek Holdings, Tishman Speyer, Tudor Investment Corporation, UBS, Waterton Copper, Wells Fargo and York Capital Management.

    His clients have also included over 50 distinct family offices, whose aggregate assets under management total more than $150 billion, in connection with investment, trading and other matters, including a wide variety of profit allocation and incentive compensation frameworks, most of which are confidential.

    Mr. Hearn is a co-coordinator of the Firm’s Broker-Dealer Group and has served on the Steering Committee of the Managed Funds Association Outside Counsel Forum. He was named a “Next Generation Lawyer” by Legal500 US.

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    Mr. Hearn’s representations have included:

    • The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in advocating with respect to SEC proposals on beneficial ownership reporting
    • Several asset managers in advocating with respect to SEC proposals on private fund advisers
    • Breakthrough Properties in raising investment capital for the development of the Harvard Enterprise Research Campus
    • A U.S. asset manager in establishing a large non-U.S. permanent capital vehicle
    • J. Safra Sarasin Group in several significant private equity co-investment transactions

    • Galaxy Digital in its organization, launch and initial public offering
    • Departing partners in several complex and high-value separations from large asset managers.
    • Wells Fargo in its acquisition of Analytic Investors
    • Assembled Brands in Oaktree Capital Management’s investments in its lending businesses
    • A startup merchant bank in its organization and financings
    • A principal of an oil and gas operator in a large investment in a working interest fund and several associated companies
    • Millstein & Co. in an equity investment by Third Avenue Management and other matters
    • Genworth Financial in the sale of its asset management businesses to a private equity consortium
    • GE Capital in connection with many aspects of its U.S. financial regulation after the global financial crisis
    • AIG in connection with several forms of government assistance provided during and after the global financial crisis, including the 2011 series of recapitalization transactions valued at $59 billion
    • First Southern Bancorp in a novel super-capitalization transaction to create a platform to acquire distressed banks after the global financial crisis
    • New York Bankers Association in its successful constitutional challenge to the New York City Responsible Banking Act, a municipal law held by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to be pre-empted by U.S. and state laws
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    News

    • S&C Advises Cementos Argos on $11.5 Billion Sale of Summit Materials

      November 27, 2024
    • S&C Advises Galaxy Digital in Acquisitions of Cryptocurrency Trading Firms and PIPE financing

      December 8, 2020
    • Whitney Chatterjee and Joseph Hearn Speak at MFA’s Legal & Compliance 2019 Conference

      April 24, 2019
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    Education

    • Yale Law School, J.D., 2006
    • Harvard University, A.B., 2003

    Bar Admissions

    • New York
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