Overview
Yousuf Dhamee is a partner in the Investment Funds & Private Capital practice at Paul Hastings and based in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Yousuf focuses his practice on investment management matters. He represents investment advisers in connection with the structuring and distribution of investment funds, including direct lending, private debt and credit funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, fund of funds, registered funds and customized investment products.
He has experience representing sovereign wealth funds, institutional advisers and tax-exempt institutions with respect to both secondary transactions and primary investments in private funds.
Yousuf counsels clients on asset management-focused transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital-raising transactions, joint ventures, restructurings and other corporate matters, including GP stakes and other minority investment transactions. His practice includes structuring incentive compensation and equity ownership arrangements for principals of investment management firms.
Yousuf also advises clients on the establishment and operation of investment adviser businesses and provides ongoing regulatory advice related to these entities.
Yousuf has previously worked as a director in the general counsel’s office of a registered investment adviser of hedge funds, debt funds and issuers of CDOs. Before and after joining the general counsel’s office, Yousuf practiced with other international law firms in New York City and Los Angeles.
Accolades
- Chambers USA, Nationwide
- The Legal 500 US, Investment Fund Formation & Management - Private Equity Funds (Including Venture Capital)
- The Legal 500 US, Investment Fund Formation & Management - Alternative/Hedge Funds
- Who’s Who Legal, Private Funds - Formation and Private Funds - Regulatory categories
Education
- New York University School of Law, J.D. (Staff Editor, Journal of Legislation and Public Policy), 1999
- Brown University, B.A., 1996
Representations
- Represented various sovereign wealth funds and institutional funds of funds in numerous primary and secondary transactions across asset classes: hedge, private equity, venture capital and real estate.
- Represented Monarch Capital in a number of areas, including distribution arrangements, regulatory compliance and investor-related matters.
- Represented a number of large institutional investors in matters related to private fund operations, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, tax and regulatory advice.
- Represented various leading international investment advisory firms with respect to the formation and operation of onshore and offshore hedge funds.
- Represented Breakaway Capital, a Los Angeles loan fund, in the organization and offering of its initial fund.