White & Case LLP - Lawyers - David A. Goldstein

Practice Experience

Mr. Goldstein, as co-head of the Investment Funds Practice, focuses on the establishment and representation of private investment funds including both domestic and international private equity and hedge funds. His clients include merchant banking and LBO funds, real estate opportunity and value funds, international real estate funds and emerging markets funds with management teams located around the world.

Mr. Goldstein’s experience representing hedge funds and their managers is equally diverse, and his clients include large, well-established funds and managers based outside the U.S. investing in non-U.S. markets, as well as first-time funds of high quality emerging managers. He also represents fund sponsors in structuring their governance and compensation arrangements, and investors in alternative assets.

Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Goldstein was a partner at a leading law firm for three years and an associate for eight years at another large firm. Before entering law school, he was a manager in the corporate tax department of a major accounting firm, where he also worked in the audit department. Mr. Goldstein is also a frequent speaker at industry seminars.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 1994

Education
JD, New York University School of Law, Honors, Articles Editor, Annual Survey of American Law, 1993
MS, State University of New York at Binghamton, with Honors, 1985
BS, State University of New York at Oneonta, with Honors, 1984

Professional Associations and Memberships
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Publications and Speaking Engagements
Reproduced Speech, "Convergence in Action", presented to the first joint meeting of the Hong Kong Venture Capital Association and the Alternative Investment Management Association, April 2005
“The Convergence of Private Equity and Hedge Funds in Asia,” Asian Counsel, December 2004/January 2005
Co-author, “SEC Proposes Rules Requiring Offshore Advisors of Offshore Hedge Funds to Register Under the Advisers Act,” The Journal of Investment Compliance, Fall 2004
Co-author, “Tax Considerations In Structuring U.S.-Based Private Equity Funds,” International Financial Law Review, Private Equity and Venture Capital 2002 Edition, 2002

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States