Bio

Josh Dambacher is co-head of the firm’s London office and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Josh focuses his practice on corporate, securities and regulatory matters. He primarily represents institutional and entrepreneurial investment managers, financial services firms and private investment funds in all aspects of their business. Josh’s experience includes structuring investment management firms, hedge funds, private equity funds, hybrid funds and funds of funds; and structuring and negotiating seed and strategic investments. He also regularly advises investment management firms and their principals on UK and US regulatory compliance, acquisitions and reorganisations of investment management firms, and restructuring proprietary trading desks into independent investment management firms. Josh regularly advises fund clients in the fintech space and has established a profile in the industry as a leading cryptocurrency and digital asset funds expert. Josh previously led the US Financial Reforms Working Group for the Alternative Investment Management Association. He has been described by interviewees in Chambers UK as “pragmatic and commercial in his outlook” and “always reachable no matter what.” Josh is listed as a leading investment management lawyer by Best Lawyers, Chambers UK, Chambers Europe, IFLR1000, The Legal 500 UK and Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Private Funds Lawyers, and was twice named to the Financial News 40 Under 40 Rising Stars list. Josh also received an “Outstanding Contribution” award for his services to the hedge fund industry (The Hedge Fund Journal Awards 2018). He is a frequent speaker and author on issues facing the investment management industry including, most recently, on the current regulatory landscape for hedge funds, the EU Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers and the US Dodd-Frank Act.