Law firm Bingham McCutchen has expanded its investment management group to Hong Kong with the addition of Anne-Marie Godfrey as partner.
Godfrey has experience advising investment managers in Asia on the establishment and regulation of hedge funds, mutual funds and private equity funds.
She advises investment advisers, fund administrators, trustees and other fund service providers on investment fund-related issues.
"Anne-Marie will add significant value to our US fund clients with ties to Asia," says Roger Joseph, head of Bingham’s investment management group and co-leader of the financial services area. "Her arrival underscores the critical role Asia plays in Bingham’s growth strategy in advising clients on global and complex issues."
Bingham’s investment management group represents both US and non-US managers, advisers and funds. The practice is a key component of Bingham’s financial services area, which has more than 300 lawyers based in key capital markets in the US, UK and Asia and provides a full range of regulatory, transactional, compliance, enforcement and litigation services to clients worldwide.
Godfrey, who joins from Maples and Calder, is the latest in a string of laterals to join Bingham. Michael Glazer joined Bingham’s investment management group in Los Angeles last year. Davina Garrod, an EU antitrust lawyer who also represents financial services companies and funds, joined Bingham’s London office in January, providing the investment management group and financial services area with additional European capabilities.
Susan Merrill, former head of enforcement at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, joined Bingham’s broker-dealer practice in New York in April, and Lizzie Baird joined the broker-dealer practice in Washington in March. Former US Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox joined Bingham in California last July.
