Brian Bullard implements comprehensive, business-centric strategies in order to facilitate opportunistic joint venture / private equity transactions. In focusing on the commercial objectives of each underlying matter, he seeks to partner with clients to construct creative and innovative legal solutions to achieve clients' business goals. Utilizing his background in finance and accounting, Brian takes a business-minded approach to the practice of law. He strongly believes that clients are best serviced by counsel who understand and adhere to the practical, bottom-line realities of any corporate transaction.
Brian’s practice primarily centers on matters relating to the structuring, formation, and management of private investment vehicles, including:
- Joint ventures
- Private equity, hedge, co-investment, seeding, and hybrid funds
- Special-purpose entities
- Operating companies
- Managed accounts
Brian regularly represents both emerging and institutional managers/sponsors with commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, financing, development, operation, and disposition of:
- Multi-family and mixed-use properties
- Hotels
- Office parks
- Self-storage facilities
- Student housing projects
- Medical and senior-living centers
Brian also frequently advises prospective and existing investment advisors with respect to their compliance obligations under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, and will generally assist advisers with:
- SEC and state-level registrations
- Understanding available exemptions from registration as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940
- Form ADV (Part 1A and Parts 2A and 2B)
