London – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has added Ron Feldman as a partner in the Asset Management and Investment Funds (AMIF) practice. He joins the firm’s London office from Fieldfisher LLP, where he served as the leader of the hedge fund team.

Feldman has nearly two decades of experience working with buy-side clients and major financial institutions. He advises global financial institutions and funds on derivatives and related matters including portfolio swaps and total return swaps, financing transactions including structurings, repurchase agreement transactions, stock loans, and prime brokerage and asset custody agreements. Feldman also counsels on regulatory matters such as international derivatives and margin reform as well as securities financing transactions.

Feldman has nearly two decades of experience working with buy-side clients and major financial institutions. His previous roles included roles in private practice and in-house. Feldman advises global financial institutions and funds on derivatives and related matters including portfolio swaps and total return swaps, financing transactions including structurings, repo transactions, stock loans, prime brokerage and asset custody agreements. Feldman also counsels on regulatory matters such as international derivatives and margin reform as well as securities financing transactions.

“Ron’s addition to the firm will greatly enhance the level of services we give our clients, including advising them on English law derivatives and financing agreements,” said Michael Caccese, K&L Gates chairman and a leader of the firm’s AMIF practice area. “We look forward to leveraging his wealth of knowledge in working with these complex matters.”

Tony Griffiths, managing partner of K&L Gates’ European and Middle East offices, stated: “We are extremely pleased to welcome Ron as a partner in both our London and our growing European Asset Management and Investment Funds teams. Ron brings the firm and our clients a wealth of experience advising global financial institutions and funds on derivatives and related matters.” 

Feldman is one of numerous partners and of counsel to join K&L Gates’ global AMIF practice during the past two years, with other recent additions including three AMIF partners through the firm’s early January opening of an office in Dublin, Ireland, and new AMIF lawyers in the firm’s Boston, Washington, D.C., Miami, New York, and Sydney offices.

K&L Gates’ AMIF practice has more than 50 years of experience in the financial services industry and comprises more than 150 lawyers throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. These lawyers provide advice to investment companies and advisers, broker-dealers, emerging managers, and institutional investors across a range of areas, including on investment, hedge, private equity, and real estate funds, regulated funds and exchange-traded products, capital markets and derivatives, ERISA, ESG, and global regulation and distribution, among others.