David Reintjes represents private equity firms and family offices on complex transactions and strategic initiatives. David has committed over 25 years to serving and supporting private fund sponsor clients as both outside counsel and in-house. He advises firms of all sizes and strategies and dedicated his career to enabling private fund formation, investment and operation.
As long-time in-house counsel at a global private equity firm, David has first-hand experience with the daily challenges facing private fund sponsors in their investments and operations which he leverages to provide practical, nuanced and timely advice. He relies upon his international deal experience while serving as a General Counsel in Hong Kong and Singapore to help clients navigate tricky deals and the pitfalls of investing in new or risky jurisdictions by bringing a creative and innovative mindset to getting the deal done.
Although primarily focused on M&A, David is equally at home handling fund, regulatory or operational matters. Over the years, David has also advised fund sponsors on:
- Forming and operating private investment funds
- Establishing new strategies, products and business lines
- Registering investment advisers and broker-dealers
- Building and running compliance programs
- Navigating government investigations and examinations
- Investing and operating in international markets
- Managing portfolio company risk
Because of the depth and breadth of David’s private equity experience, GCs, CCOs, CFOs and COOs rely upon David as a trusted advisor who can help them tackle almost any legal or operational issue, and, consequently, David often acts as outside general counsel to private equity firms.
David has served as Chief Compliance Officer for numerous investment advisers and broker-dealers (including advisers to private equity funds, credit funds, hedge funds, and family offices). He has built compliance programs and handled responses to governmental investigations and examinations. In addition, following the global financial crisis, David was actively involved in various working group and committees of industry associations (including the American Investment Council, the Investment Adviser Association and Invest Europe) in their efforts to shape regulations as the landscape for private funds shifted and routinely asked to speak at SEC and industry conferences.
Early in his career, David worked in private practice as a corporate securities attorney advising private equity and other clients on mergers and acquisitions.
