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With more than 15 years of experience in the alternative investment industry–as Vice President & Associate General Counsel of Goldman, Sachs & Co., a Director of hedge fund consulting at Deutsche Bank, and, most recently, as General Counsel of Claren Road Asset Management LLC–Ben offers firsthand knowledge of the issues facing investors, funds, and their financing and derivative counterparties. New and existing funds benefit from his transactional and regulatory experience by providing them with the ability to dodge the pitfalls of a turbulent market and translate legal and regulatory challenges into opportunities.
As a legal advisor, Ben brings value to every stage of the fund life cycle. New managers seeking capital, particularly in the startup market, rely on his experience and insights with respect to structuring, fees, and capacity. He can help identify a fund's objectives, minimizing risk through proactive counsel regarding the obstacles they are likely to face in today's market.
Ben offers the comprehensive, practical perspective of a frontline lawyer who has navigated a wide array of issues. His experience includes fund formation and restructuring, counterparty risk and fund financing, separately managed accounts and funds-of-one, ERISA-based vehicles, management company acquisitions and dispositions, and numerous and complex compliance issues ranging from insider trading to SEC exams to difficult valuation and allocation issues. His experience on both the buy side and sell side provides clients a valuable edge as they search for opportunities in a rapidly evolving environment.
NEWS & INSIGHTS
PUBLICATIONS
- December 21, 2018 "SEC OCIE Issues Guidance on Recordkeeping Requirements for Electronic Messaging," Investment Management Client Alert
- March 7, 2018 "Lessons From Merit Management: The Settlement Payment Defense Lives … if You Are a 'Financial Institution'," Lowenstein Sandler Client Alert
- February 14, 2018 "The SEC's 2018 Examination Priorities," Investment Management Client Alert
- September 6, 2017 "Digital Tokens: Should SEC Registered Investment Advisers Update Their Code of Ethics?," Investment Management Client Alert
PRESS MENTIONS
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May 9–May 16, 2019
Benjamin Kozinn analyzes implications of recent SEC enforcement actions and the importance for fund managers to provide adequate support to Chief Compliance Officers and compliance programs, in a two-part series in the Hedge Fund Law Report.
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December 27, 2018
Gary M. Wingens and Benjamin Kozinn are mentioned in The American Lawyer in an article discussing 2018 as a strong year for U.S. law firms. The article notes that Wingens reported Lowenstein’s 51.4 percent revenue growth over the past decade. Kozinn states the firm’s hedge fund clients, among others, recognize the whole value proposition that Lowenstein represents and provides.
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October 11-November 8, 2018
Benjamin Kozinn points to a confluence of issues present in a cracked economy which led to the 2008 global financial crisis in an interview with the Hedge Fund Law Report. In the first of a two-part series, Kozinn provides an insider’s assessment of the crisis—the causes, the role that hedge funds played, and the regulatory changes in its aftermath (including passage of the Dodd-Frank Act)—and the new focus on counterparty risk. Kozinn also provides insight into the evolution of hedge fund managers as a result of the crisis and the issues behind increased levels of scrutiny. In part two of the series, Kozinn discusses the growing importance of chief compliance and chief operating officers since 2008, growing institutionalization and scrutiny of the hedge fund business, and factors behind a 2018 decrease in fund launches. In addition, Kozinn looks at the state of financial regulation and why the next downturn will reinvigorate hedge funds and spur a search for fresh talent.
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February 6, 2018
Benjamin Kozinn is quoted in Reuters regarding employer policies governing personal trading by employees in cryptocurrencies.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Panelist, Eagle Alpha's Data Strategy - Legal Webinar on Credit Card Panels, Lowenstein Sandler and Eagle Alpha, Webinar, June 28, 2019
- Speaker, Information Evaluation & Trading: MNPI, Duty and Related Securities Law, UBS Premier Hedge Fund Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, May 10, 2019
- Panelist, Expenses: Manager-Investor Debate on the Grey Areas and Whether They Can Be Charged – Research, Exams and Regulatory, Personnel, GAIM Ops Cayman, Grand Cayman, April 29, 2019
- Speaker, Select Topics for Asset Managers – Privacy, Advertising and Enforcement, New York, NY, May 22, 2018
- Lowenstein Sandler Investment Management Breakfast Series, New York, NY, May 2, 2018
- Speaker, Legalities and Realities of Web Scraping and Big Data, GAIM Ops Cayman, Grand Cayman, April 23, 2018
- Lowenstein Sandler Investment Management Breakfast Series, New York, NY, January 23, 2018
Education
Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 2001); Associate Editor, Fordham Law Review; Order of the Coif
Emory University (B.B.A. 1998), with distinction
Admissions
- New York