Aaron is a counsel in Reed Smith’s Global Corporate Group, practicing primarily in the area of private fund formation and counseling. In this role, Aaron represents private equity and hedge fund sponsors in a wide array of transactions, including fund formations, portfolio company transactions, and financings. Aaron also regularly advises fund sponsors and other clients on regulatory matters such as adviser registration and private placement issues. While focusing his practice primarily on private funds, Aaron also engages in general corporate representations, including company formations and drafting of related governing documents, negotiation and drafting of agreements and side letters for venture capital investments, and drafting of corporate resolutions.
Aaron was previously a member of Reed Smith’s Financial Industry Group, where he gained experience both as a litigator (three years) and as a corporate finance attorney (one year). He also spent six months on secondment at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, where he focused on compliance with federal remittance transfer regulations.
Aaron is a founding member of Reed Smith’s Social Impact Finance Group and a regular speaker on topics relating to impact investment. In that capacity, he initiated and developed the firm’s partnership with the International Transactions Clinics at New York University School of Law and the University of Michigan Law School, through which Reed Smith attorneys supervise law students representing impact investors and social enterprises on a broad array of transactions. He is also a founding member of the Impact Investing Legal Working Group, a professional network of lawyers who work in the field of impact investing for a diverse array of organizations, including impact investors, social enterprises, law firms, nonprofit organizations, foundations, and academic institutions.
