As a Senior Associate at Cole-Frieman & Mallon LLP, Hank focuses on investment fund formation. He negotiates and drafts all transaction documents for private equity firms, venture capital firms and hedge funds seeking to raise investment vehicles.
Prior to joining Cole-Frieman & Mallon, Hank was an Associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he represented private equity and venture capital firms in raising large investment vehicles, including co-mingled funds, co-investment funds, and separately managed accounts. Before Kirkland, Hank served as Senior Counsel at Hanson Bridgett LLP, where he advised on various fund formations, M&A transactions, securities matters and other business transactions.
Hank spent eight years as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Indaba Capital Management, L.P., an SEC-registered investment adviser focused on event-driven opportunities. As the sole legal professional at the firm, he handled all legal and compliance matters as the firm grew from $0 at launch to over $1.1 billion in assets under management. Earlier in his career, Hank spent six years as an Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where he represented leading private equity firms and hedge funds in fund formation and fundraising. Prior to finding his place in corporate law, Hank was a litigator for about four years.
Hank earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Virginia Journal of Law and Social Policy. He received his B.A. in Government, cum laude, from Dartmouth College, where he earned three-year varsity letters playing lacrosse and was named a Jewish All-American by the Jewish Sports Review.
