Taza advises professional investment managers and private investment sponsors in all aspects of fund formation, including fund and “upper-tier” structuring, fee and carried interest implementation, preparation of offering documents and other marketing materials and negotiation of side letters. Taza also has significant experience on regulatory, compliance and operational issues both during an active fund raise and during the operational stage, including Adviser’s Act registration and exemptions, compliance program establishment and annual reviews and regulatory examinations. Taza is a senior counsel in the firm’s Dallas office. Taza is a member of the firm’s Fund Formation & Investment Management Practice, while also working on sophisticated matters in Corporate & Corporate Governance, Capital Markets & Public Company Advisory and Venture & Growth Capital.
Taza’s sponsor clients include established and emerging private equity, hedge fund, venture capital, growth equity, credit and fund-of-funds sponsors. Additionally, Taza advises institutional “allocators” to funds, including endowments, governmental plans, family offices, fund-of-funds, and corporations on their private capital investment activity.
In addition to his investment management focus, Taza advises a range of public and private clients on complex corporate, M&A, securities and governance matters. The work includes transaction agreements, equity holder and operating agreements, financing arrangements (equity and debt), recapitalizations and incentive equity structures, as well as the drafting and advice on ‘34 Act filings (including Form 13D for active investors and Section 16 filings).
