As a Partner at Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP, Garret works on the formation and launch of hedge funds and their managers; provides advice regarding registration, compliance issues, and regulatory inquiries and examinations; assists clients in respect of transactions and trading and credit agreements, including ISDAs, Prime Broker Agreements, Portfolio Margin Agreements, Security Agreements, Tri-Party Custody Agreements, and Futures Commission Merchant Agreements; and drafts and negotiates agreements for the compensation, onboarding, and offboarding of fund personnel. In his legal practice, Garret uses AI tools, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Harvey AI.
Previously, Garret worked in the asset management practice of two leading Wall Street law firms — Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP — and for a decade as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Ellington Management Group, and at leading private fund managers D. E. Shaw and Citadel.
Garret received a B.S. with Distinction (highest honors) from Cornell University in Economics, and a J.D. from Cornell Law School while also serving as a Law Clerk for The Honorable Thomas J. McAvoy of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.
