Zeke Johnson

Zeke’s work crosses various alternative asset classes, including private equity and private credit, venture capital, hedge fund, and other liquid strategies, as well as impact and other environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing. His transactional work includes advising on fund launches and restructurings; formation and registration of investment advisers, commodity trading advisors, and commodity pool operators; negotiation of side letters, single-investor funds, and managed account agreements; general partner- and limited partner-led secondary transactions; co-investment vehicle formation; sales and purchases of investment funds and managers; and US product offerings of non-US managers. Zeke also advises US and non-US investment managers on the Investment Advisers Act, the Commodity Exchange Act, Regulation D and Dodd-Frank compliance issues.

Earlier in his career, Zeke served as general counsel at Black River Asset Management LLC, a large alternative asset manager, where he oversaw legal matters related to more than $7 billion in assets and managed an international team of lawyers.