Jeffrey M Bronheim
Partner, London
Jeffrey Bronheim is a partner at Cohen & Gresser and is the Managing Partner of Cohen & Gresser’s London office. He has over 30 years of securities and financial law experience representing fund managers, hedge funds, issuers and other alternative investment vehicles on all aspects of their business, including going public, structuring and forming investment funds, private investments and private placements, debt and equity capital markets, EU, UK, and US financial regulation, and issues relating to HR, tax, conflicts, investigations, and lending.
Prior to joining Cohen & Gresser, Jeff served as General Counsel of Cheyne Capital in London for a decade. Prior to that, he was counsel to the liquid markets business at Fortress Investment Group in New York, where he advised on the first NYSE hedge fund manager IPO. He was also in-house counsel to the investment banking division at JPMorgan Chase in London, Madrid, and New York for eight years, and at Credit Suisse for nearly three years. He began his career as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
Jeff is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and received his undergraduate degree in finance, magna cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Jeff was a founding member of the FSA Committee on Market Abuse, and has been a frequent contributor to HFM. He is also a member of the FMLC Asset Management Scoping Forum and has been a member of AIMA’s communication and legal committees.
Jeffrey Bronheim is a partner at Cohen & Gresser and is the Managing Partner of Cohen & Gresser’s London office. He has over 30…
Education
University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1990); University of Pennsylvania (B.S. in Finance, magna cum laude, 1984)
Bar Admissions
England & Wales; New York State
Activities and Affiliations
Member, FMLC Asset Management Scoping Forum
Member, AIMA Communication and Legal Committees
Founding Member, FSA Committee on Market Abuse
Member, UK and Global Boards, Help for Children
Senior Member, UK Hedge Fund Lawyer’s Association 2008-2017
Former Council Board Member, Adirondack Council
Representative Matters
New York Stock Exchange IPO of Fortress Investment Group, one of the first diversified Hedge Fund managers to be publically listed in New York.
Restructuring of $12 billion SIV in the financial crisis, including the first English Supreme Court case on the nature of asset-value insolvency.
Converting defaulting hedge fund into a run-off CLO structure – the only time this has been accomplished.
Merging and restructuring numerous funds in the financial crisis.
Fund Director of Irish UCITS and QIF, Luxembourg Registered Funds, Jersey REIT and English investment vehicles.
Serves as out-sourced General Counsel to a number of family offices covering a variety of legal needs.
Director of Irish real estate investment ICAV for multi-million pound property development transaction.
Read MoreCohen & Gresser LLP advised private equity firm Limerston Capital in its acquisition of Forensis Group Limited and Forensic Axis Limited (trading respectively as Forensic Access and Axiom International), specialists in forensics science services and premier providers of international institutional reform and capacity building. The combined acquisition will form the basis of a new, comprehensive international criminal justice services provider. Management and founders, led by Professor Angela Gallop, will retain a significant minority shareholding as part of the transaction and will work with Limerston Capital to expand the businesses through organic growth and strategic acquisitions. The terms of the transactions were not disclosed.
London Managing Partner Jeffrey M Bronheim is quoted in Legal Futures regarding the opening of C&G's London office.
Jeffrey M Bronheim is quoted in Funds Europe regarding the regulatory barriers to entry that European investment firms must overcome in order to operate in the U.S. "Among these are procedural controls relating to valuations, illiquid securities, undisclosed fees, conflicts of interest, and insider trading," he said.
The opening of Cohen & Gresser's London office was featured in the following articles:
- "NYC's Cohen & Gresser Launches in London," The American Lawyer
- "Cohen & Gresser Taps Fund Manager GC To Head New Office," Law360.com
- "Cohen & Gresser Launches in London, Hires Bronheim," The Drawdown
Cohen & Gresser announces its continued international expansion with the launch of its London office on June 1, 2018, led by partner Jeffrey M Bronheim. The office, which will be the firm’s fifth location globally and its second in Europe, will serve clients in all aspects of the investment industry, including hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds, investors, and management companies. It will also focus on transactional work, cross-border litigation, and investigations.
Jeffrey M Bronheim, Daniel H Mathias, and James R Mossetto discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on private equity funds, noting that investor uncertainty and the need to preserve cash may drive limited partners (“LPs”) to question their obligations to fund capital calls.
Jeffrey M Bronheim, Daniel H Mathias, and James R Mossetto discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on private equity funds, noting that investor uncertainty and the need to preserve cash may drive limited partners (“LPs”) to question their obligations to fund capital calls.
London team members Jeffrey M Bronheim, Jumana Rahman, Charlotte Ritchie, and Daniel H Mathias discuss the English law contractual provisions which may impact businesses and investors in light of the coronavirus epidemic.
Miriam González Durántez and Jeffrey M Bronheim discuss current Brexit developments in their latest C&G Client Alert.
Jeffrey M Bronheim participated in a joint HFM/NASDAQ webinar and discussed this year’s top compliance trends for global hedge funds, including SEC exam trends, CFTC reporting requirement changes, and Treasury rules.