Yehuda M. Braunstein heads up the Family Office practice and is also a member of the firm’s Financial Services and Corporate groups. Yehuda counsels family office clients in connection with all aspects of their operations, including formation issues, governance and compensation issues, strategic planning, joint ventures, co-investments, transactional and day to day matters as well as compliance issues.
Yehuda’s practice also focuses on investment managers, investment funds, securities, joint ventures, and regulatory compliance. He regularly structures and organizes hedge funds, energ funds, private equity funds (including real estate, distressed energy and lending funds), funds of funds, venture capital funds, separately managed accounts and hybrid funds. Additionally, he advises private fund managers on structure, compensation, employment and investor issues, and other matters relating to management companies. His investment manager clients range from emerging managers to large institutional platforms. Yehuda also structures and negotiates seed investments and operating agreements. He provides ongoing advice to investment advisers on securities law issues, including SEC filings. His practice also involves counseling clients in SEC regulatory matters, including compliance issues related to registered advisers, as well as conducting mock audits.
Prior to joining Sadis & Goldberg, Yehuda was special counsel in the Investment Management group at Schulte Roth & Zabel where he represented dozens of private investment managers and various types of investment funds and an associate at Debevoise & Plimpton where he primarily represented private equity funds and their investment advisers.
